capital ship in English

noun
1
a large warship such as a battleship or aircraft carrier.
In the Second World War carriers replaced battleships as the capital ships of modern navies because aircraft could perform the functions of naval guns more effectively.

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Below are sample sentences containing the word "capital ship" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "capital ship", or refer to the context using the word "capital ship" in the English Dictionary.

1. The Battlecruiser is the primary Terran capital ship

2. Adamant is a Colonial capital ship in Battlestar Galactica Deadlock

3. The treaty limited the total capital ship tonnage of each of the signatories.

4. Space Battlecruiser is an arcade style, top down space shooter where you control a heavily armed capital ship

5. A Battlecruiser, or battle cruiser, was a large capital ship built in the first half of the 20th century

6. A Battlecruiser is a type of large capital ship which places an emphasis on speed and heavy weapons rather than heavy armor

7. The Barque-class battleship is the capital ship of the Eliksni fleet of the House of Time, and is armed with weapons not employed by other Fallen factions in the Solar system