Example sentences for: fleet

How can you use “fleet” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The prize exhibit is the full-size copy of the Royal Galley, La Reial, aboard which Don Juan of Austria commanded the fleet that defeated the Turks at the Battle of Lepanto in 1571.

  • Liberal ideas began mushrooming in France itself, and after Nelson destroyed Napoleon’s fleet at the Battle of Trafalgar, the French West Indian planters’ lifeline with France was all but destroyed as well.

  • In 1665–1667 the Dutch sailed up the River Medway and sank the British fleet moored there.

  • You’ll also see the vaulted remains of large arcaded asenali (ship repair yards) that serviced the Venetian fleet.

  • Two years later, the Portuguese sent their fleet, led by Afonso de Albuquerque, to seize Melaka.


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