Example sentences for: navy

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

  • In World War I the US Navy Department ordered the creation of a vice-free zone for five miles around every naval base.

  • It was in Kagoshima that the Imperial Japanese Navy was created from the nucleus of ships bought from the British at the end of the 19th century.

  • Later on August 20, Navy vessels in the Arabian Sea fired their cruise missiles.

  • He did so with the help of a foreign navy vessel.

  • In an op-ed, former WP military reporter George C. Wilson wonders why, if the military now expects most of its missions to be related to peace-keeping and counter-terrorism, President Clinton and Secretary of Defense William Cohen continue to allow the Army to spend millions on tanks, the Navy to keep buying $2 billion submarines, the Air Force to keep buying stealthy $160 million fighters, and the Marines to buy $40-$60 million vertical take-off-and-landing troop carriers instead of much cheaper helicopters.


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