Amphibious in a sentence as an adjective

It's like calling a car that rolls off a ferry an "amphibious" vehicle.

Then I doubt they'd be able to launch enough cruise missiles to sink 10 cruises and 5 amphibious ships.

I don't see any push for amphibious cars, for example.

Also, its not as if the Marines have been doing a lot of amphibious landings lately.

They borrowed an amphibious backhoe from the Navy.

I will be exploring this place remotely with an amphibious rover in about a month.

And there are penguins in the region, but they're amphibious rather than really being stuck on Antarctica.

The Marines have "amphibious assault ships" that are sort of like aircraft carriers for helicopters.

There are not enough aircraft carriers and amphibious warfare ships in the combined navies of the world to force an entry past the US Navy.

What if houses rose with flood waters instead of trying to keep water away from houses?Turns out there is an effort to do exactly that, create an "amphibious house".

Then they instructed the enemy forces to look the other way as their marines performed amphibious landings.

"Suddenly you don't need a carrier to provide topcover for amphibious operations,"Airplanes do more than keep away other airplanes.

Suddenly you don't need a carrier to provide topcover for amphibious operations, for example.

Well okay, we have some different offerings; do you plan on programming micro controllers embedded in amphibious robots?

Because of the space constraints for operating from amphibious carriers the rotors were undersized for the flight profile they wanted in the V-22, so they compensated by putting in more powerful engines.

From the article "Additionally, the modular automobile portion of the vehicle can be removed for additional payload capacity or replaced with a boat hull or an amphibious hull for water operations.

I still don't get why the US Navy hasn't put an LHD or equivalent amphibious group into the relief effort -- it would be a great humanitarian thing, plus a show of strength for one of our key Pacific allies after the "pivot to Asia" -- a pretty clear implication that if we can put a battalion ashore to help hours after a hurricane, we can do similar things during a conflict.

Amphibious definitions

adjective

relating to or characteristic of animals of the class Amphibia

See also: amphibian

adjective

operating or living on land and in water; "amphibious vehicles"; "amphibious operations"; "amphibious troops"; "frogs are amphibious animals"