SUBMARINE in a Sentence

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Without British help it's clear the Russian submarine would have perished at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean.

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 Meanings and Examples of SUBMARINE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
submarine
 n.  submersible warship; move forward or under in a sliding motion; underwater
Classic Sentence:
1  But sometimes the soul does come up, shoots like a kittiwake into the light, with ecstasy, after having preyed on the submarine depths.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17
2  It is our mortal destiny, I suppose, to prey upon the ghastly subaqueous life of our fellow-men, in the submarine jungle of mankind.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17
3  Choke-cherry blossoms lured her from the outer sun-warmed spaces to depths of green stillness, where a submarine light came through the young leaves.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
Example Sentence:
1  The submarine submerged to avoid enemy ships.
2  The submarine returned to its home base in Vancouver.
3  All employees at the submarine base require security clearance.
4  A spokesman for the dockyard said they hoped to launch the first submarine within two years.
5  The President has agreed to allocate further funds to develop the new submarine.
6  The submarine is driven by nuclear power.
7  He detected a ship moving down the starboard side of the submarine.
8  I was instructed to inquire from the German Government as to whether a German submarine had sunk the Sussex.
9  Without British help it's clear the Russian submarine would have perished at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean.
10  Divers trying to raise the bodies of 118 sailors from the sunken Kursk nuclear submarine were near to finishing a man-sized hole in the hull on Tuesday.
11  Prickly Sharks are found mostly in submarine canyons and its numbers are being depleted due to overfishing.