Sentence examples for torpedo from high-quality English sources.

• Navy Grumman TBF Avenger torpedo bombers.

• Submarines sank battleship class vessels using torpedo missiles.

• They warn that this would torpedo a trans-Atlantic trade deal in Congress.

• But LG clearly wouldn’t want to torpedo a feature Google likely considers this phone’s key strategic asset.

• We checked this against a high-end torpedo level and found the Monoprice was way off.

• During World War I the Lusitania was sunk by a German torpedo, resulting in great loss of life.

• …his estranged son Jere (Brandon deWilde), who is serving as an ensign on a patrol torpedo (PT) boat.

• Thomas Massie tried to torpedo emergency relief legislation because he objected to some grants included in the bill.

Use torpedo in a sentence.

• It was also a superb escort fighter, with only 42 carrier-based bombers and torpedo planes lost between 1943 and 1945.

• There is clearly an enormous risk that the government’s proposed new Brexit legislation will “torpedo” the current talks with the EU.

• His craft could be submerged by vertical propellers to a depth of 50 feet and was fitted with one of the first practical torpedo tubes.

• The arrival of Lexington-class carriers in 1927 gave the Navy the ability to field dedicated carrier aircraft, including torpedo bombers.

• The Russian military is developing supposedly unstoppable missiles that travel more than five times the speed of sound and a doomsday torpedo that could irradiate an entire ocean.

• This damage caused by a torpedo missile or another ship in battle has caused the ship to rock, or tilt to one side as depicted by the excess wake on the boat's starboard (right) side.

• The navy dispatched search crews to find the KRI Nanggala 402 Wednesday morning after it missed a routine check-in following a torpedo drill that was being conducted near the island of Bali.

• Almost simultaneously, the four torpedo boats raked Pueblo with machine-gun fire, immediately wounding two of its crew, including Bucher, who finally ordered the destruction of sensitive material.

torpedo sentence examples

• In hindsight, former colleagues of Sugrobov and Kolesnikov and their lawyers suspect that Globa was himself a torpedo, sent by the F.S.B. to entrap the officers of GUEBiPK in an operation that could be used against them.

• As oil prices plunged below zero for the first time in history Monday, some may have thought that this unprecedented plunge would also torpedo the price of everyday oil based products, and possibly even lead to free gas, but in reality, fuel prices probably won't all that much.

• Search teams found an oil slick suggesting a possible fuel tank rupture early in the search, and then more recently, they discovered items that appeared to have come from inside the vessel, such as prayer rug pieces, a bottle of periscope lubricant, part of a coolant pipe, and a torpedo component

• Ren Guoqiang, a spokesman for the defence ministry, said late on Friday that the ships had been sent upon the invitation of Indonesian government and they were heading for the Lombok Strait to help recover the KRI Nanggala 402, which went missing last Wednesday when taking part in a torpedo drill.