"runner" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- "I have had other news from the blockade runners that you must hear, Mistress."
- Slowly, the blockade runner lost way and lay dead in the water, an easy prey for Union sailors.
- He should have looked for work as a blockade runner, he knew now.
- Without the blockade runners the Confederacy could not have sustained itself.
- During the war, some 1,500 blockade runners were captured or destroyed.
- Some 1,100 blockade runners were captured (and another 300 destroyed).
- He designed ships that were fast enough to pursue the blockade runners.
- Yet, some cotton was slipped out by blockade runner, or through Mexico.
- If one ship was gone, they were usually chasing his blockade runners.
- Every so often the Union fleet caught or sank a blockade runner, but most of them got through.
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