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Example sentences for "torpedoing"

Lexicographically close words:
torni; torno; torpedo; torpedoed; torpedoes; torpid; torpidity; torpor; torque; torques
  1. It is the first torpedoing of the Russian fleets at the entrance of Port Arthur, which took place, as you know, on the night of the 8-9th of February last year.

  2. An incident of the great battle was the torpedoing of the super-dreadnaught Marlborough, which is now safely an harbor.

  3. In India the torpedoing of the Lusitania made a profound impression, as the native press proves.

  4. July 15--Germany expresses formal regrets for the torpedoing of the American steamship Nebraskan, stating it was due to a mistake, and offers to pay damages.

  5. Germany would thus admit the legality of the torpedoing of the Lusitania and express regret at the death of American citizens.

  6. For once a U-boat had fulfilled her legitimate purpose by torpedoing a warship.

  7. In this last Note President Wilson (for, of course, it is an open secret that he was the author of these Notes) made the issue perfectly plain, referring to the torpedoing of enemy passenger ships.

  8. The Foreign Office finally, at my repeated request, called on the Admiralty for a report of the torpedoing of the Sussex; and finally on the tenth of April the German Note was delivered to me.

  9. But all these negotiations, reproaches and recriminations were put an end to by the torpedoing of the Lusitania, with the killing of American women and civilians who were passengers on that vessel.

  10. One American was killed or drowned on the Englishman, but the issue finally came to a head over the torpedoing of the channel passenger boat, Sussex which carried passengers between Folkstone and Dieppe, France.

  11. When the Chancellor called for me the following morning, he asked me if I had read this extract from the submarine officer's log, and noted how he had refrained from torpedoing a boat one hundred and twenty miles from land.

  12. Of course, the news of the torpedoing of the Lusitania on May seventh and of the great loss of American lives brought about a very critical situation, and naturally nothing was done with Kriege's propositions.

  13. The Emperor said that he would not have permitted the torpedoing of the Lusitania if he had known, and that no gentleman would kill so many women and children.

  14. The Central powers could scarcely have improved on it by torpedoing us in mid-ocean or by speeding us upon our trip with a cargo of clock-work bombs.

  15. The message was the copy of a wireless report to the effect that German submarines had been successful in torpedoing two British cruisers of the "Chatham" class.

  16. Beyond torpedoing a tramp, and sinking another by gun-fire, she had failed to carry out the work of frightfulness that had been expected of her.

  17. This torpedoing of neutral vessels is a praiseworthy affair," explained the count.

  18. The torpedoing or mining of a battleship in the Great War was curtly dismissed in half a dozen lines.

  19. French cruisers, and this catastrophe was followed almost immediately by the torpedoing of the new British cruiser Doris, and the capture of the new German dynamite cruiser Trier.

  20. But Englishman and Frenchmen might very easily believe that the torpedoing was the work of a group of officers and men in our Navy who hated England enough to strike her below the belt.

  21. Why would it not be wholly reasonable for the British to suppose that the torpedoing was the work of a German submarine that had sneaked into the harbor of Malta under the surface of the water?

  22. Why doesn't the fellow take a chance on torpedoing us?

  23. We will admit that the torpedoing happens at a time when only American and British war craft are visible in Grand Harbor.

  24. The biggest and most dramatic of the losses occasioned by the enemy submarines was the torpedoing of the three big cruisers Aboukir, Cressy, and Hogue on the morning of 22nd September.

  25. The latter relied on torpedoing her enemy under cover of the darkness, but the submarine is most dangerous in day-time.

  26. Were you going a zigzag course at the moment the torpedoing took place?

  27. Between the time of passing Fastnet, about 11 o'clock, and of the torpedoing I saw no sign whatever of any submarines.

  28. President Wilson's note to Germany, written consequent on the torpedoing of the Lusitania, was dated six days later, showing that time for careful deliberation was duly taken.

  29. As soon as those on board had taken their places in the lifeboats they rowed towards us and showed the liveliest interest in the final torpedoing of their steamer.

  30. There was but little chance of torpedoing her in any other way.

  31. After torpedoing submarine, I proceeded four miles north, and lay on the bottom in 18 fathoms.

  32. But when it came to torpedoing helpless merchantmen, and jeering at the death-struggles of the unfortunate crews, Jack Tar began to regard the unterseebooten in the light of pirates and murderers.

  33. At the commencement of the war, the torpedoing of several battleships and cruisers by German submarines aroused no enmity within the hearts of the British tars.

  34. In her plan of campaign I gathered that I was to act as a kind of convoy, from which she was to dart forth, torpedoing all obstacles.

  35. I was quite confident of her torpedoing ability but not of my fitness to play a star part as a dour and fear-inspiring background.

  36. Well we knew that he had given it only to cover his treachery in torpedoing the Conciliation Bill, and in the hope of placating the suffragists, perhaps securing another truce to militancy.


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