Example sentences for: flotilla

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

  • The Dutch sent an invasion flotilla to Macau in 1622, but the defenders triumphed.

  • Each island has a flotilla of small craft setting sail daily to bring fresh catch to the island’s tables.

  • A lost flotilla, the hemisphere tapped in my ear, the ticking of whales the warnings of sand.

  • The river traffic is a motley flotilla of modern container ships and ocean-going junks — their sails the color of grime — of packed ferries and convoys of barges, warships, rusty coasters, and bobbing sampans.

  • A British flotilla, diverted from the Caribbean, sailed up the Mississippi with some 10,000 first-class troops.


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