Example sentences for: fleets

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

  • “With the recent expansion of the Taiwanese and Chinese fleets, we don't have the kind of sampling programs needed for those kinds of fisheries,” says Rick Deriso, a fisheries scientist with the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission (IATTC) (La Jolla, California, United States).

  • In the 16th century the Spaniards sank a well here to supply their treasure fleets with fresh water for the long journey back across the Atlantic.

  • The Los Angeles Times leads local but with the sort of California first that often becomes a bellwether: Because diesel fumes are generally blamed for much of the cancer risk posed by Los Angeles' air pollution, the Southern California air quality agency plans to propose requiring all bus, truck, and car fleets operated by public agencies to eventually be entirely composed of vehicles running on electricity, natural gas, and other clean-burning fuels.

  • 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.

  • 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.


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