mother ship , also: mothership

Because the mother ship was beginning a long, controlled fall toward Earth.

"Because it would make a lot more sense for us to be still hiding behind our mother ship."

Throw in the mother ship and we may really be out of our league.

For there was still time to call the mother ship if the need arose.

The mother ship, according to the screen, was nowhere around.

A moment later, the mother ship swung back into the center of the screen.

Players control one mother ship which moves along the edge of the game board.

I never should have shown the inside of the mother ship."

New York is the mother ship of possibility, a city where dreams are expected to come true.

The sunlight in the ports of the mother ship turned red.

"They'll also go all out to protect the mother ship.

The other mother ships were silent and dark but for running lights, waiting.

They had not known that the mother ship crashed on Mars.

Our mother ship is one of several floating in a vast bay.

The boat sprang from its mother ship, into the sky.

On the road Floyd says he needs to abandon the mother ship.

The mother ship carries enough nuclear fuel to last a billion years.

The last four merely took up station alongside the mother ship.

They expect to destroy the enemy mother ship within two hours.

The 100-ton boat was also a mother ship to three smaller craft.

She was to be a "mother ship" for five other ships tied together.

During the day they would return several times to the mother ship and unload their catch.

As yet, the mother ship hadn't come after the Constitution.

"Now we've got the mother ship to worry about, too."

She had already given thought to the idea of getting aboard the mother ship, and rejected it.