STEAMER in a Sentence

Learn STEAMER from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

50 example sentences for STEAMER, such as:

1. Suddenly a steamer hove in sight.
2. We got aboard easily, and rowed out into the track of the steamer.
3. Any foreign steamer that fell in our way and would take us up would do.
4. The steamer toiled along slowly on the edge of a black and incomprehensible frenzy.
5. I feel as if, coming to you, I had landed on a peaceful shore after the noise and jolting of a steamer.

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 Meanings and Examples of STEAMER
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
steamer
 n.  vessel propelled by steam; steamship or steamboat; road locomotive for use on common roads
Classic Sentence: (47 in 4 pages)
1  Any foreign steamer that fell in our way and would take us up would do.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter LII
2  We found that a steamer for Hamburg was likely to suit our purpose best, and we directed our thoughts chiefly to that vessel.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter LII
3  The steamer for Hamburg and the steamer for Rotterdam would start from London at about nine on Thursday morning.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter LIV
4  Whether we should remain at the house until near the steamer's time, which would be about one in the afternoon, or whether we should put off early in the morning, was the question we discussed.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter LIV
5  We got aboard easily, and rowed out into the track of the steamer.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter LIV
6  But, it was half-past one before we saw her smoke, and soon afterwards we saw behind it the smoke of another steamer.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter LIV
7  A stretch of shore had been as yet between us and the steamer's smoke, by reason of the bend and wind of the river; but now she was visible, coming head on.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter LIV
8  Startop could make out, after a few minutes, which steamer was first, and gave me the word "Hamburg," in a low voice, as we sat face to face.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter LIV
9  But, the Rotterdam steamer now came up, and apparently not understanding what had happened, came on at speed.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter LIV
10  He told me that he believed himself to have gone under the keel of the steamer, and to have been struck on the head in rising.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter LIV
11  I feel as if, coming to you, I had landed on a peaceful shore after the noise and jolting of a steamer.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 14
12  I left in a French steamer, and she called in every blamed port they have out there, for, as far as I could see, the sole purpose of landing soldiers and custom-house officers.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
Context  Highlight   In I
13  I had my passage on a little sea-going steamer.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
Context  Highlight   In I
14  I had my shoulders against the wreck of my steamer, hauled up on the slope like a carcass of some big river animal.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
Context  Highlight   In I
15  The steamer toiled along slowly on the edge of a black and incomprehensible frenzy.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
Context  Highlight   In II
Example Sentence:
1  The steamer was a well-found craft compared with any others that had navigated the river before.
2  And while the late steamer Big Missouri worked and sweated in the sun, the retired artist sat on a barrel in the shade close by, dangled his legs, munched his apple, and planned the slaughter of more innocents.
3  Suddenly a steamer hove in sight.