: a ship or airplane used chiefly to carry freight
Examples of freighter in a Sentence
Recent Examples on the WebThe SEALs were operating from the USS Lewis B Puller, an expeditionary sea base and converted freighter topped with landing decks for helicopters and capable of releasing small watercraft.—Luis Martinez, ABC News, 21 Jan. 2024 Following a ceremonial outing in Nebraska, the Big Boy jumped in to save a stuck freighter on a Nebraska railway.—Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 10 July 2023 It's beloved by boaters and freighters, sunbathers and anglers, and is an important freshwater resource for nearby residents and creatures.—Christina Hall, Detroit Free Press, 14 Feb. 2024 It was joined by a freighter called the Collingwood.—Kelsey Ables, Washington Post, 13 Feb. 2024 Finally, researchers in Australia located the site of the wreck of the M.V. Blythe Star, a coastal freighter that sank in 1973.—Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Dec. 2023 The crew held off the Sentinelese with a flare gun and were eventually evacuated by helicopter, leaving the freighter behind.—Jordan Castro, Harper's Magazine, 5 Jan. 2024 Eight weather data buoys were installed on the Great Lakes in 1979 in response to the Edmund Fitzgerald wreck, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration wrote in a blog post about the shipping freighter disaster.—Carol Thompson The Detroit News (tns), arkansasonline.com, 27 Nov. 2023 Russia regularly refuels the International Space Station with Progress resupply freighters.—Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 7 July 2023
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