In 1912 the new Conservative government passed through the House of Commons an act authorizing an appropriation of thirty-five million dollars for three first-class Dreadnought battleships.
They are going to try the thing on New Year's night against the German dreadnought Wilhelm II in Boston Harbour.
And now the great super-dreadnought Pennsylvania was sinking into the Caribbean with Admiral Fletcher aboard and seventeen hundred men.
There is no more excuse for a torpedo missing a dreadnought at a thousand yards than there is for a pistol missing a barn door at twenty feet!
Aye: now this very dreadnought it was, Sir, that compelled me (making a low bow) to issue my warrant for your apprehension.
No, Sir, do as I bid you; just bring me the dreadnought and a round hat.
Because we never expected to see you to-night; we had heard that the gentleman in the dreadnought had been taken up at the theatre, and committed.
I have not murdered the guard, Mr. Mayor: but I troubled him for his regimental coat, that I might gain admittance to your worship: and I left him the dreadnought in exchange.
Despite the fact that the public had been looking forward to an immediate clash of the dreadnought squadrons of the two countries somewhere between the east coast of Scotland and the Dutch shore, nothing of the kind happened.
Whereas England, at the same time, was building ships of the dreadnought type.
Five days later the navy suffered a severe loss in the blowing up of the pre-Dreadnought battleship Bulwark as she lay at her buoy off Sheerness.
The Venerable, a pre-Dreadnought battleship, did great execution with her big 12-inch guns, which outranged the German batteries.
The Glasgow picked up the pre-Dreadnought battleship Canopus, which at the time of the fight was unfortunately 200 miles away to the southward, and both ships proceeded in company to Port Stanley in the Falkland Islands.
They are now seen at the outset of their careers as ensigns, ordered to duty aboard the dreadnought "Long Island" in the latter part of March, 1914.
As they strode along, their eyes feasting on the strong, proud lines of the dreadnought on which they were to serve, their staunch young hearts swelled with pride.
Taking the British navy, the leader in this field, the size of battleships was yearly augmented until in 1907 the famous Dreadnought appeared, looked upon at the time as the last word in naval architecture.
I was tired of the negotiations, and yielded; so away went poor Dreadnought with his saddle and bridle, never for me to look on again.
Dreadnought was good for nothing as a racer, and had broken down in training.
At this time I took little interest in pedigrees, and knew nothing of the "cracks," so the names of those celebrated animals which Dreadnought had beaten are forgotten.
In the popular imagination the Dreadnought is still the one instrument of naval war.
For the price of a Dreadnought one might have hundreds.
He pushed a button and a red light showed on the lead dreadnought of the enemy column.
Each of the above stations possessed provision for an aerial Dreadnought as well as one or more aerial cruisers, in addition to scouts or vedettes.
It mustered sixteen battleships, four of them of the famousDreadnought class, and all powerful vessels.
Wishing to use to the utmost the high speed and enormous batteries of his four battleships of the “Dreadnought “class, Lord Ebbfleet had determined to manœuvre with them independently.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dreadnought" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
