Sentence examples for an armada of working from inspiring English sources

They were followed by 40 of the small boats that participated in the evacuation of 340,000 British and French soldiers from Dunkirk, France, in 1940, and an armada of "working boats" that included tugs, fireboats and 19th-century steamboats.

Twenty minutes outside Washington, it consisted mainly of sleek workstations manned by meteorologists working an armada of flat-screen monitors with maps of every conceivable type of weather data for every corner of the country.

At the top of the hill, an armada of mechanical grapplers, steel cutters, front loaders and trucks is working near a large compound of dark green tents.

On the horizon, we don't see an armada of ships skimming oil; we see fishing vessels at work gathering the day's catch.

I remember the primitive 'boom' that was placed across the harbour mouth to try to keep the oil out of, what was then, a working harbour and the incessant spraying of detergent by an armada of small boats.

The surgeon came in, trailing an armada of nurses.

Today an armada of human-built machines approaches Mars.

When the ice dam broke, an armada of icebergs was suddenly released into the North Atlantic.

Uninvited, they floated in on an armada of boats made from found materials and junk.

But he has built an armada of celebrity and socialite friends.

LIKE an armada of tall ships, tales of the sea are sailing onto bookshelves.