fleet

[fliːt]

Definition:
1. Group of aircraft operating together under the same ownership.
2. Group of motor vehicles operating together under the same ownership.
3. A group of steamships operating together under the same ownership.
4. A group of warships organized as a tactical unit.
5. Move along rapidly and lightly; skim or dart.
6. Disappear gradually.
7. Moving very fast.

Use 'fleet' in a sentence:

1. Russia and Ukraine have been disputing the ownership of the fleet.
2. A fleet of police cars suddenly arrived. Dozens of officers piled out.
3. “Vickers, ” The Northern Fleet, 1943.
4. The Second Fleet.
5. The fleet moved down the Don River in 1698.
6. A fleet was seen in the distance.
7. The damage inflicted upon the British fleet was devastating.
8. What of the reports of the Rebel fleet massing near Sullust?
9. The flagship led the fleet.
10. Gary captained the fleet.
11. As the Roman Empire grew, the Romans needed to take control of the seas and for this they needed to build harbours capable of holding a fleet of ships.
12. He was the highest-paid sub-editor in Fleet Street.
13. Meanwhile, Minos had raised a considerable fleet, and set out in search of Deadalus.
14. There is enough water in the harbor to float a fleet.
15. He ordered the combined fleet to convoy troops to Naples.
16. He was placed in command of the fleet.
17. In 1916, the Russian Black Sea fleet helped the Russian army to take the Ottoman city of Trebizond.
18. The storm beached half the fleet.
19. She is fleet of foot for her age.
20. Your establishment is in fleet street, you say?
21. We won a fleet of 10 sail.
22. In 2000, he calculates, 85% of the container fleet could still pass through Panama.
23. There's been a big reduction in the size of the British merchant fleet in recent years.
24. Using an alias, he had rented a house in Fleet, Hampshire.
25. Their fleet put to sea from Charleston.
26. A fleet of French ships was sighted in the North Sea.
27. The shipowner has still held a merchant fleet of seven cargo-vessels.
28. In contrast with its surface fleet, Britain's submarine force was relatively small.
29. The fleet is manoeuvring off the east coast.
30. The fleet admiral ranks in the navy of the United States.
31. With its own fleet of trucks, the company delivers most orders overnight.
32. The Roman fleet after it had been revictualled and repaired stood right across the Mediterranean.
33. The average age of the fleet of the seven large U.S. passenger airlines is about 14 years old according to the airline monitor.
34. Why then would he put the American fleet at risk?
35. If the planet gets attacked, only the planetowner sees the attacking fleet his overview.
36. Fleet Admiral William Hunter.
37. The army should have operated in conjunction with the fleet to raid the enemy's coast.
38. The fleet is manoeuvring off the East coast.
39. Were they part of what inspired the "Lost Fleet"?
40. That same day an invasion fleet was scattered.
41. It will slash staffing at its fleet of 770 stores, a move affecting some 3,000 employees.
42. Fleets of buses took them the rest of the way.
43. They will want picking up from the airport by car, not in your fleet of buses.
44. The Dutch fleet are sailing up the Thames.
45. They are the base of the Russian Landing Fleet.
46. There's been a big reduction in the size of the merchant fleet in recent years.
47. Stopping the whaling fleet is not a game.
48. The authorities fitted the explorers a fleet.
49. The state has extended her merchant fleet phenomenally.
50. A fleet sailed for New South Wales to establish the first European settlement in Australia.
51. They maintain a very powerful fleet in Oriental waters.
52. He made his money with a fleet of moving vans.
53. The fishing fleet comprises around 70 boats.
54. A powerful fleet was concentrated at Pearl Harbour.
55. An enormously powerful fleet was concentrated at Pearl Harbour.
56. A fleet of ambulances took the injured to hospital.