"speed" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- In the afternoon the speed of the ship was increased, and by night they had covered several hundred miles.
- That proved nothing-at least nothing about the actual speed of the ship.
- His mind was humming along at the speed of the ship, but far less unobtrusively.
- During the next half hour or so he asked his sailing master if he was happy with the speed of the ship.
- By using this system it is possible to improve the speed of the ship and reduce fuel consumption.
- In that time it increased the speed of the ship by rather more than a mile per second.
- In the following morning the wind turned north and began to pick up, reducing the speed of the ship.
- The forward speed of the great ship would have been deceptive to any monitor observing its approach.
- The steel doors would have held but for the speed of the ship, she was travelling to fast in that weather.
- The speed of the ship in nautical miles per hour (still called "knots") would then be known.
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