Example sentences for: fleets

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

  • Merchant shipping doubled in size and increased its income ten-fold as the European fleets were destroyed.

  • Huge quaysides in the Main Harbor cater to hundreds of ferries large and small, and you’ll see fleets of large container ships laying anchor offshore.

  • Also, small railroads are exempt from the Tier 0 remanufacturing requirements for their existing fleets and the railroad inuse test program included in the rule only applies to Class I freight railroads, thus exempting all small railroads from the requirement.

  • Until recently, there was little for ordinary mortals who lacked a yacht, but now there are sailing fleets waiting to be hired either bare (for qualified sailors) or with a crew to do the work for you.

  • Perhaps because of its vastness and rugged terrain, Andros became a favorite of the pirate fleets; one of its major settlements is called Morgan’s Bluff after the pirate leader Henry Morgan, who is said to have buried treasure on one of the beaches in the area.


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