gunboat

How To Use gunboat In A Sentence

• A total of 110,000 security personnel will be on duty at the Games, with airspace around venues tightly guarded and navy gunboats patrolling the waters around the city.
• The houses are clad in tin sheets, like beached gunboats.
• Gone was the era of gunboat diplomacy, gone the treaty port concessions, gone the specially conceded naval bases, the military missions, the ill-disguised interference in Chinese affairs.
• Ships, from small flea-like fighters to gunboats, corvettes and super-battlecruisers are appropriately sized.
• As a rule the Superintendent's responses to almost all overseas situations were of the despatching of a gunboat nature. A DEAD LIBERTY
• In the days when gunboat diplomacy was tool of world powers ( Christian Science Monitor ).
• Along the edges of the convoys sailed a variety of ships: graceful sloops, chunky corvettes, slim gunboats like the Dutch Soemba, antisubmarine patrol craft, fast PT boats, and everywhere sleek destroyers.
• The Gloria moved into position among the other redemption class ships, or gunboats based on the original design of the man-o-war of the British Armada.
• The gunboats were a total failure and historians have been highly critical of Jefferson's policy. Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
• Finally, after a display of gunboat diplomacy by Britain, Germany withdrew Einwald's claim and the place became British. A DAYSTAR OF FEAR