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Example sentences for "submarine"

Lexicographically close words:
sublingual; sublunar; sublunary; submachine; submarginal; submarines; submaxillary; submerge; submerged; submergence
  1. Then was it found that there was merely a shell of rope, which served as covering for a steel drum containing oil fuel suited for the use of submarine engines.

  2. It's already helped us to save the Bona Fide Submarine Building Corporation.

  3. Illustration (a submarine attacks the Swiftsure)] Tom and his crew pretended to put up a blustering, indignant front.

  4. Quickly the enemy submarine maneuvered closer until the two craft were almost chockablock.

  5. They were obliged to fasten the brig by means of her anchors, notwithstanding her immovability; they were obliged to prepare for the submarine currents and the breaking up of the ice.

  6. But during the night a violent wind raged, and the sea rose under her crust of ice as if shaken by some submarine commotion, and the terrified voice of the pilot was heard crying: "Look out aft!

  7. When daylight came, it was seen that the brig was drifting rapidly northward, along with a submarine current.

  8. The conservative newspapers, and even the Roman Catholic newspapers were violent in their call for ruthless submarine war as well as violent in their denunciations of the United States of America.

  9. Shortly before leaving Germany, in January, 1917, and after I had learned of the probability of the resumption of ruthless submarine war, at an evening party at the house of Dr.

  10. Solf asked me if I did not think that it would be possible for the United States to permit the resumption of ruthless submarine warfare against Great Britain.

  11. I was instructed to inquire from the German Government as to whether a German submarine had sunk the Sussex.

  12. Von Bethmann-Hollweg, however, at this interview after the thirty-first of January, said that he had been compelled to take up ruthless submarine war because it was evident that President Wilson could do nothing towards peace.

  13. In one of these it was expressly intimated that in any settlement of the submarine controversy America would make no distinction between armed and unarmed merchant ships.

  14. Do you hereby subscribe to the articles of agreement forming the firm of White & Fulton, submarine engineers, tunnel diggers, jail breakers, or whatever form of occupation will enable us to escape from the castle of San Juan de Ulua?

  15. He was in one of the famous submarine dungeons of the Castle of San Juan de Ulua.

  16. He was in the same submarine dungeon of the famous Castle of San Juan de Ulua.

  17. They had reached the stairway which led down to the hall of the submarine cells, and still feeling their way they ascended it cautiously.

  18. They told me because they did not believe I could escape again, as they sent me to one of the submarine dungeons under the castle of San Juan de Ulua.

  19. UNDER WATER When the Dipsey, the little submarine vessel which had started to make its way to the north pole under the ice of the arctic regions, had sunk out of sight under the waters, it carried a very quiet and earnestly observant party.

  20. In all their submarine experiences they had not yet sunk down low enough to be anywhere near the bottom of the sea.

  21. This meant that they had reached open water southward of the frozen regions they had been exploring, and the great submarine voyage, the most peculiar ever made by man, was ended.

  22. None of the others shared these special fears of Mrs. Block, but they were all as much disinclined as she was to begin another submarine voyage in the shallow waters which they had been so glad to leave.

  23. If the return voyage under the ice should be as successfully accomplished as the first submarine cruise, it would not be very many days before the Dipsey should arrive at Cape Tariff.

  24. It was perfectly possible to blow a great hole in the ice and descend into the sea at this point, but they would have preferred going farther south before beginning their submarine voyage.

  25. Submarine voyaging is an entirely different profession from that of the old-time navigator.

  26. In fact, this telegraphic communication between Sardis and the submarine vessel was almost as primitive as that in use in the latter part of the nineteenth century.

  27. I was thinking that if a submarine should come into this harbor, it might happen to get stuck in my clam beds, and it would stir them all up, and would be bad for the clams.

  28. And with a sea running--well, I could lead a submarine a pretty chase.

  29. Thinking upon submarines, there came into my head the account that I had just seen in the London "Times" of the capture of a submarine by a trawler.

  30. As I recollect it, the trawler was going about her business in the North Sea--a business not unconnected with submarines--when suddenly a submarine began to emerge from the deep just ahead.

  31. Ram him," answered the captain promptly, "if it is a submarine and we can get there in time.

  32. If I were out in the bay, and a submarine suddenly popped up beside me, I should feel much more inclined to offer the crew my luncheon than to shoot them.

  33. But I could give you some hints for your submarine chasing.

  34. You know the Smith saw a submarine a week or two ago.

  35. But if they can see the submarine from up there, and can pounce upon it as surely as the hawk strikes his fish--well, if we had a plague of submarines, it would be a comfort to see a hawk now and then.

  36. And I want to see a German submarine before I die.

  37. It would be a fast submarine I thought, that could damage her--in any sort of breeze.

  38. The trawler put on all the speed she had time for, and rammed the submarine amidships, sliding up on its body half her length, so that the captain found himself well-nigh stranded near the periscope.

  39. I would if the submarine was bound for this harbor.

  40. UNDER THE OCEAN TO THE SOUTH POLE or The Strange Cruise of the Submarine Wonder A marvelous trip from Maine to the South Pole, telling of adventures with the sea-monsters and savages.

  41. He moved his machine shop to a lonely spot on the Maine coast, and there, with the help of the boys, Washington, Andy and two machinists constructed a submarine boat, called the Porpoise.

  42. What occurred on this great trip is described in the second book of this series, called "Under the Ocean to the South Pole, or the Strange Cruise of the Submarine Wonder.

  43. If we had our submarine we might also," interrupted Jack.

  44. The new German super-submarine has just completed successful trial runs in the Bay of Heligoland.

  45. This giant submarine is of the type that carries three months' supplies, which does not necessitate her putting into port or having recourse to the parent ship.

  46. Germany, France, Great Britain and Japan dissenting from the second paragraph of this article, which explains that a place is not to be considered to be defended merely because it is protected by submarine contact-mines.

  47. The application of these principles to the case of submarine cables would appear to be, to a certain point at any rate, perfectly clear.

  48. A submarine has obviously no space to spare for such an addition to its own staff.

  49. In order to get over this objection, it was at one time supposed that the reef-building polypes had settled upon the summits of a chain of submarine mountains.

  50. The guns' crews were held at their stations hoping for an opportunity to fire on the submarine should it appear before the ship sank, and orders were given to the guns' crews to begin firing, hoping that this might prevent further attack.

  51. Captain Bill sat in a retired nook, if a submarine can possibly be said to have a retired nook, with a chart spread open on his knees.

  52. If a submarine captain wants to send his boat under quickly, he simply touches the button of a Klaxon; the horn gives a demoniac yell throughout the ship, and each man does what he ought to do at once.

  53. Every time we have a submarine scare, I feel markedly better for a while--it seems to reëstablish my sense of proportion.

  54. Sidenote: Submarine folk are a people apart.

  55. An extraordinary power of quick decision, a certain keen, resolute look, a certain carriage; submarine folk are such men as all of us like to have by our side in any great trial or crisis of our life.

  56. The armed forces of Germany must not include any military or naval air forces except for not over 100 unarmed seaplanes to be retained till October 1 to search for submarine mines.

  57. Woman, particularly, possesses for instance a kind of submarine bell; and, if she listens, she can at times hear it tinkling faintly.

  58. Navy Polaris missiles were detonated underwater in bay; by elimination it is deduced that the submarine was the Ethan Allen.

  59. During the late Franco-German war in 1870 it was applied to submarine illumination, and more lately it has been used in a series of street illumination in St Petersburg.

  60. It was believed that the moral effect of the submarine would be almost as important as its physical effect in dealing with an enemy's warship, and this idea has been justified.

  61. On the other hand an anti-balloon gun has been devised which can be raised from the submarine when it comes to the surface, and used against the hostile airship.

  62. These include the use of the balloon and aeroplane as scouting devices, of the bomb filled with explosives of frightful rending power, and of the submarine naval shark, designed to attack the mighty battleships from under water.

  63. But the fact is that when submerged the submarine is as blind as the traditional bat.

  64. Submarine builders have naturally held the view that the submerged boat could not be seen.

  65. But it has been discovered that from a certain height an observer may trace the course of a submerged submarine with as great accuracy as if it were running on the surface.

  66. Without suspecting anything, the submarine allowed the ship to approach, when suddenly the American flag was lowered and the English ensign hoisted, and a destructive fire was opened on the U.

  67. William McBride, which sailed under the American flag, with masked batteries, and sank a German submarine which had been deceived by the Stars and Stripes and the American colors painted on both sides of her hull.

  68. I don’t blame you for the submarine business.

  69. The aeroplane, the automobile and the submarine were each made possible by the invention of the gas engine, and the gas engine was invented by Gottlieb Daimler.

  70. We had been discussing the submarine issue.

  71. This, we think, disposes of the question involved whether a submarine should be required to abstain from sinking a captured vessel of the enemy.

  72. The commander of the submarine sent out to torpedo the ship had been instructed to fire at the forward hold, so that the passengers could get off before the vessel sank.

  73. A scientific education is not necessary to appreciate that it is much more difficult for a submarine successfully to hit a naval vessel than an unarmed merchant ship.

  74. Sidenote: More than one submarine in wait.

  75. War experience has shown that fast steamers can considerably reduce the chance of successful surprise submarine attacks by zigzagging--that is to say, altering the course at short and irregular intervals, say in ten minutes to half an hour.

  76. Early in the evening reports had been received from the right flank that a hostile submarine was believed to be moving down the strait, and about midnight H.

  77. The underwater speed of a submarine is very slow and it is exceedingly difficult for her to get into position to deliver an attack unless she can observe and predict the course of the ship attacked.

  78. It must be assumed that the German submarine commanders realized the obvious disadvantages which necessarily attached to the Lusitania, and, if she had evaded one submarine, who can say what might have happened five minutes later?

  79. The question, then, is whether the act of the German submarine commander was an illegal act.

  80. Judging from the location of previous submarine attacks, the most dangerous waters in the Lusitania's course were from the entrance to St. George's Channel to Liverpool Bar.

  81. In the case of the sinking of the English steamer Falaba, the commander of the German submarine had the intention of allowing passengers and crew ample opportunity to save themselves.

  82. One reason for this was that a rival firm of submarine builders got wind of the treasure, and tried to get ahead of the Swifts in recovering it.

  83. They were plotting the ruin of our bank then," and he told his father about his disastrous pursuit of the submarine agent.

  84. The young inventor had noticed it on several occasions when he had been in conversation with Mr. Berg previous to the attempt on the part of the owners of the rival submarine to wreck Tom's boat.

  85. I have some, that is my share from the submarine treasure, and some I have allowed to accumulate as royalties from my patents.

  86. A further examination confirmed the belief that the submarine agent had sneaked into Tom's workshop, and had altered the wires.

  87. No sooner was the name of Tom Swift received by the officials of the club, than it was at once recalled that young Swift had had a prominent part in the airship Red Cloud, and the submarine Advance.

  88. No, not a submarine prize, dad," and the youth laughed.

  89. They reached their shore cottage late that night, and, after seeing that the runabout was safely locked in the big shed where the submarine had been built, they all went to bed, for they were very tired.

  90. If we had the submarine or the airship, now, it wouldn't so much matter.

  91. No, Dad still has the cottage he rented when we built the submarine and I think I'll make that my headquarters during the race.

  92. And how has he been since he went in the submarine with us, and helped recover the gold from the wreck?

  93. The whole worlds excited about this submarine affair.

  94. Tell me, for instance, just what does a submarine look like when it pops up out of the sea?

  95. Here's a fellow like Granet, a keen soldier and one of the best, doing all he can for us on land but a bit worried about our submarine danger.

  96. Almost at their side the periscope of a submarine had suddenly appeared.

  97. Personally," the Admiral observed, joining in the conversation, "I consider the submarine danger the greatest to which this country has yet been exposed.

  98. The submarine grew nearer and Granet tossed a small roll of paper across the chasm of waters.

  99. As to the submarine business, if half the things are true that we have read, they seem to have behaved like brutes.

  100. Germany, conscious of her superiority in men, and her hypocritical peace offers unanimously rejected, was preparing to free herself from the last restraint of civilization and to begin unrestricted submarine warfare.


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    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    submarine attack; submarine boat; submarine boats; submarine cable; submarine cables; submarine coaxial; submarine fiber; submarine telegraphy; submarine torpedo; submarine warfare