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 Meanings and Examples of TORPEDO
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torpedo
 n.  a cigar-shaped self-propelled underwater missile
Classic Sentence:
1  It was a few days before the Fourth of July, and a grey, scrawny Italian child was setting torpedoes in a row along the railroad track.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Example Sentence:
1  Ice could freeze up their torpedo release mechanisms.
2  His ship was blown up by a torpedo.
3  The destroyer's armament consist of several small cannon, two torpedo tube and a number of anti-craft gun.