Examples of committee in a sentence. 1  We're waiting for recommendations from the advisory committee. 2  The bill has been referred back to committee.
In this case, the Dockwise Vanguard is the biggest, at only 91,238 GT and 263 m. 7.) The WWII-era Japanese Yamato was the biggest battleship ever made, displacing 71,659 tonnes and stretching 256 meters, but the proposed Nazi Schlachtschiff H-44 would have dwarfed it. 131,000 tonne displacement and 345 m long.
(By comparison, the new American Iowa-class battleships were 887 feet long, but displaced only 45,000 tons and had a top speed of 33 knots.) 1  A view of the Yamato as a bomb explodes near her forward 460mm gun turret during the Battle of the Sibuyan Sea on October 20, 1944.