Examples of “warship” in a Sentence

noun A ship built or equipped for combat at sea.

• Sailors gathered on the deck of the warship as it left the harbor.
• The warship patrolled the strait for weeks before returning to port.
• Naval historians love debating which warship changed the course of the battle.

noun In science fiction, a spacecraft built or armed for combat.

• In the novel, a lone warship guards the colony against raiders from deep space.
• The movie opens with a giant warship gliding silently past a distant moon.
• The fleet's flagship warship jumped to hyperspace just as the enemy arrived.