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Example sentences for: fleet

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The Dixie was a large tender that repaired and serviced combat vessels, mainly destroyers and destroyer escorts, at fleet anchorages, first at Ulithi and later off Leyte in the Philippines.
Notwithstanding the comments of one of the Postal Governors at the November Board meeting about not being able to recover increased fuel costs and the need for flexibility to permit them to level a fuel surcharge, the USPS was able to factor into the update the increased costs of fueling its delivery fleet.
Burgeoning trade in the Balearics was interrupted by marauding pirates based in North Africa as well as by the powerful Turkish fleet.
But in 1596, when it was Spanish territory, an English fleet commanded by Queen Elizabeth I’s favorite, the Earl of Essex, sacked and burned the capital.
“ The best ports in the Mediterranean are June, July, August, and Maó,” said the 16th-century Venetian admiral Andrea Doria, noting that beyond the summer sailing season, a fleet couldn’t do better than shelter here.