Below you will find example sentences with "cargo ships". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.

Cargo Ships in a sentence

Corpus data

  • Displayed example sentences: 20
  • Discovered as a combination around: ships
  • Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 9
  • Phrase length: 2 words
  • Average sentence length: 25.8 words

Words in this phrase

cargo ships

Meanings of words in this phrase

  • cargo can mean: Freight carried by a ship, aircraft, or motor vehicle. Frequent word
  • ships can mean: plural of ship Frequent word

Sentence profile

  • Phrase position: 2 start, 13 middle, 5 end
  • Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Usage patterns

These patterns show short text windows around the phrase in the example sentences:

been on cargo ships with no 1× boats and cargo ships typically have 1× convert civilian cargo ships into seagoing 1× deeper draft cargo ships anchored off 1× emissions from cargo ships 1× emissions the cargo ships were releasing 1× five american cargo ships made a 1× for freight cargo ships 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

a convoy of 1× a major example 1× a severe post 1× a stop gap 1× all 45 bogue 1× barton said she 1×

Common sentence endings:

a major war 1× anchored off shore 1× and oil ship 1× connection to israel 1× during the war 1× feb 24 2022 1×

Context words

These words often appear near this phrase in the example sentences:

ship 5× oil 4× major 3× ports 3× port 3× freight 3× cruise 3× four 3× tankers 3× war 3× used 3× russian 3×

Related phrases

cruise ships cargo ship

Phrases around this combination

Other phrases discovered around ships:

cruise ships 16×

Just before it in the phrase index:

cargo ship careless driving carefully planned carefully crafted carefully consider carefully chosen

Just after it in the phrase index:

caribbean airlines caribbean basin caribbean community caribbean cruises caribbean islands caribbean region

Other phrases with the same pattern

Same start:

cargo ship

Same ending:

cruise ships

Corpus analysis

  • The phrase "cargo ships" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 25.8 words and is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as been on cargo ships with no, boats and cargo ships typically have, ship, oil and major stand out.
  • In the phrase index, this combination connects with cruise ships, cargo ship and cruise ships, linking the page to nearby combinations.

Example types with cargo ships

This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:

Short example sentences

But the ports have no direct control over the cargo ships. (11 words)

Fishing boats and cargo ships typically have one or more cargo holds. (12 words)

The nine domestically-flagged ships are one cargo ship, four passenger/cargo ships, and four oil tankers. (17 words)

Longer example sentences

Major ports * San Juan Port - Mainly divided in three: one in Old San Juan which includes cargo/freight and cruise ships, the Pan American Port Terminal in Isla Grande section mostly for cruise ships, and Puerto Nuevo, exclusively for freight/cargo ships. (42 words)

A convoy of five American cargo ships made a simulated run through hostile waters in September 2019 during a sprawling, short-notice test of the U.S. fleet’s ability to ship people and cargo during a major war. (39 words)

In 2006 Turkmenistan had eight merchant marine vessels of more than 1,000 tons displacement, of which four were cargo ships, two were oil tankers, one was for refrigerated cargo, and one was a combination ore and oil ship. (39 words)

Example sentences (20)

Major ports * San Juan Port - Mainly divided in three: one in Old San Juan which includes cargo/freight and cruise ships, the Pan American Port Terminal in Isla Grande section mostly for cruise ships, and Puerto Nuevo, exclusively for freight/cargo ships.

The nine domestically-flagged ships are one cargo ship, four passenger/cargo ships, and four oil tankers.

A convoy of five American cargo ships made a simulated run through hostile waters in September 2019 during a sprawling, short-notice test of the U.S. fleet’s ability to ship people and cargo during a major war.

Fishing boats and cargo ships typically have one or more cargo holds.

In 2006 Turkmenistan had eight merchant marine vessels of more than 1,000 tons displacement, of which four were cargo ships, two were oil tankers, one was for refrigerated cargo, and one was a combination ore and oil ship.

It was a shallow-draft river port, with several smaller vessels that hauled cargo to and from the deeper-draft cargo ships anchored off shore.

All 45 Bogue-class ships were derived from the Maritime Commission’s Type C3 cargo ships hill and constructed by the Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corporation.

A severe post-war shortage of cargo ships also had to addressed with a boom shipbuilding to replace ships sunk during the war.

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A stop-gap measure was instituted by fitting ramps to the front of some of the cargo ships known as Catapult Aircraft Merchantmen ( CAM ships ), equipped with a lone expendable Hurricane fighter aircraft.

By type, there is one bulk ship, two cargo ships, 2 liquefied gas ships, one petroleum tanker and roll-on/roll-off ship.

Converted merchant ships designated T-AKs ( Military Sealift Command cargo ships) were provided to ferry missiles and supplies to the sites.

It is mainly used for freight/cargo ships but is also home to the Dominican Republic -Puerto Rico passenger ferry and has also been used for cruise ships.

One result was Arapaho, a stand-by system to rapidly convert civilian cargo ships into seagoing platforms for operating and maintaining a handful of Harriers, to be used to augment the number of available ships to deploy upon.

But in the past few days, the attacks have been on cargo ships with no apparent connection to Israel.

But the ports have no direct control over the cargo ships.

In the past 20 years, law enforcement has frequently discovered attachments below the waterline of cargo ships.

Ukraine announced earlier this month a "humanitarian corridor" in the Black Sea to release cargo ships that have been trapped in its ports since Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022.

A major example of this can be seen in the banning of high-sulfur emissions from cargo ships.

Barton said she had definite real concerns over the amount of emissions the cargo ships were releasing into the water.

Hong Kong does this by allowing Russian tankers and cargo ships, operating with fake credentials to disguise their Russian affiliation, to bring in Russian oil and other raw materials.

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