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How to use bireme in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word bireme? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
A fast and fearsome battleship, the bireme was manned by 44 oarsmen working two banks of oars.
It was a special type of bireme, made in such a way so that could be used as a tanker and as a battle ship in the same time.
The trireme had 3 banks of oars, and a full spar deck instead of the centre-line gangway of the early bireme.
The famous wall-paintings of biremes from the House of the Vettii in Pompeii show biremes, but there is not sufficient detail to specify the type of bireme.
He proved to be as headstrong in the woods and on the water as he was artful and deliberate in his shop, and he managed the trip as if he were the owner-skipper of a bireme.
This græco-roman bireme is fitted with its characteristic ram: a rostrum.
Examples from Classical Literature
Soon they tacked far to the north, and, rounding to the west, crossed the bows of the bireme of Herodotus.
This is proved by another illustration of a bireme on the same vase, in which the steering oars are clearly seen.
This Greek bireme, with its shallow hull and lofty, open superstructure, could hardy have been a seaworthy vessel.
The large figures at the stern seem to point to the bireme of Fig. 74 being about to be used for racing purposes.
In Appendix, p. 157, will be found an account of an eighth-century Greek bireme, recently discovered.
As the bireme struck the high waves King Hiram advanced to the prow.
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