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Example sentences for "submersibles"

Lexicographically close words:
submerged; submergence; submerging; submersed; submersible; submersion; submiss; submission; submissions; submissive
  1. The German submersibles are going to enter the Mediterranean.

  2. The two submersibles with their cargo of oil and gasoline were nearer the level of the sea than on their arrival and now began to disappear in the distance.

  3. To the danger of submersibles must also be added that of collision.

  4. We need there an agent who will keep us informed of the traffic of the ports, of the goings and comings of the vessels in order that our submersibles may know where to await them.

  5. The German submersibles would confine themselves, in the Mediterranean, to military actions only.

  6. In the event of gunfire attack by a submersible, three vessels would be on the alert to answer her fire instead of one: an important factor in discouraging submersibles from surface attack!

  7. To-day, submersibles are actually running down and destroying merchant vessels by gunfire.

  8. The greater the number of submersibles she has in action, the greater the area the submarine campaign will cover.

  9. It is probable, however, that to-day they have not more than two hundred submersibles in operation.

  10. He said also that the fighting value of a sufficient number of submersibles would reëstablish the balance of power between England and France.

  11. The Germans have in operation submersibles of 2000 tons displacement.

  12. Submersibles cannot attack their target in definite formations as do surface vessels, and therefore they cannot operate in numbers with the same effectiveness as do the latter.

  13. On account of the necessity of dealing with large quantities of water in the ballast system, the European submersibles are equipped with pumps which can handle eight tons of water per minute.

  14. Whether the German U-boat campaign succeeds or not will be largely a question of the number of submersibles that the Central Powers can put into service, and to what extent the submersible will be developed during the present war.

  15. Many sea-planes are operating on the other side for the purpose of locating enemy submersibles and reporting their presence to the surface patrol craft.

  16. It is estimated that Germany will be able to produce a thousand submersibles in the coming year and man these vessels with crews from her blockaded ships.

  17. The problem of bottling up the submersibles is enormously difficult, because it necessitates operations in the enemy's territory, where he would possess the superiority of power.

  18. Against this method of attack, modern submersibles have been improving their defenses.

  19. Realizing these limitations, the German submersibles are equipped with small torpedoes, which are generally fired at ranges not exceeding eight hundred to two thousand yards.

  20. If they missed on their first try, the Huns would have to run their submersibles on the surface in order to overtake the troopship fleet for another chance.

  21. Several broad patches of oil marked the graves of Hun submersibles and their crews.

  22. We've new information, Darrin, that they've more than twice the usual number of submersibles loose in these waters.

  23. Of the sixty submersibles believed to be on the job twenty may have been sent far to the westward, the other forty remaining nearer to the coast.

  24. I believe, as much as I believe anything, that the enemy's submersibles are now waiting for us at the point where they figure that we will be at dawn.

  25. They, too, feed the northern health stations in ice-bound ports where submersibles dare not rise.

  26. They, too, feed the northern health stations in icebound ports where submersibles dare not rise.

  27. The submersibles are like the large sea-going submarines of England and Germany, and have a wide radius of action, high speed, and great offensive power.

  28. These two vessels are submersibles of the Laubeuf type, and were great improvements on their predecessors, the Triton Class.

  29. But the experimental attacks upon the "Yankee" prove that they are dangerous fighting craft, and a recent voyage by a flotilla of Italian submersibles shows that such boats are no longer harbor-locked vessels.


  30. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "submersibles" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.