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Synonyms for u-boats


Grammar : Noun
Spell : yoo-boht
Phonetic Transcription : ˈyuˌboʊt



Définition of u-boats

Origin :
  • 1916 (said to have been in use from 1913), partial translation of German U-Boot, short for Unterseeboot, literally "undersea boat."
  • As in submarine : noun sub
Example sentences :
  • It was the belief that the destroyer had sunk one of the U-boats.
  • Extract from : « In the Flash Ranging Service » by Edward Alva Trueblood
  • My own notion of it is that the U-boats have many of us bluffed.
  • Extract from : « The U-boat hunters » by James B. Connolly
  • It was all interesting—the life in Paris—but it had nothing to do with U-boats.
  • Extract from : « The U-boat hunters » by James B. Connolly
  • Also he urged the crew to have a special watch out for U-boats.
  • Extract from : « The U-boat hunters » by James B. Connolly
  • By this time the lurking U-boats had been dealt with in a most effective way.
  • Extract from : « A Lively Bit of the Front » by Percy F. Westerman
  • Early in the war the U-boats were faster than the E's by quite two knots.
  • Extract from : « The Story of Our Submarines » by John Graham Bower
  • All the waters along the coast are infested with the German U-boats.
  • Extract from : « War Days in Brittany » by Elsie Deming Jarves
  • This was why the U-boats had found it so useful as a rendezvous lately.
  • Extract from : « Walking Shadows » by Alfred Noyes
  • There is a crew of only twenty men, because they need them for the U-boats.
  • Extract from : « Walking Shadows » by Alfred Noyes
  • Then it was discovered that German U-boats were doing this work.
  • Extract from : « Inventions of the Great War » by A. Russell (Alexander Russell) Bond

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