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U-boat

NOUN
  1. a submersible warship usually armed with torpedoes

How To Use U-boat In A Sentence

  • The German U-boats were shooting on the boats, so most of the niter they were trying to import to make nitroglycerin was at the bottom of the ocean.
  • An aircraft would on many occasions surprise a surfaced U-boat and attack it with both cannon fire and depth charges.
  • What if Germany's U-boats had won the Battle of the Atlantic and starved Britain into submission?
  • The ashes of a woman have been placed inside the wreck of a Royal Navy ship alongside those of her long-dead hero husband who died when the ship was torpedoed by a German U-boat.
  • Looks like a mirror only, of course, it's not a mirror, it's a U-boat 's periscope reflecting the sun. SAN ANDREAS
  • As bad luck would have it, nine German U-boats stumbled across the manoeuvres and torpedoed the ships, sinking two ships and damaging a third.
  • Whimbrel - now ENS Tariq - retains many of the features which helped her and the rest of the Black Swan class of sloops defeat the German U-boats in one of the crucial campaigns of World War II.
  • The entire range of U-boat countermeasures available to the allies was deployed at one time or another in the channel.
  • Byron was killed in the second world war aged only 35, lost when his ship was torpedoed by a German U-boat off Cape Wrath.
  • With his dungarees, red neckerchief, beard and constantly oily hands, I couldn't help seeing him as a displaced U-boat skipper - or perhaps my imagination was working overtime.
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