Sentence examples for armada that from inspiring English sources

Denktash welcomed the Turkish armada that soon arrived to "save" his community.

"It was like Dunkirk," said Geoffrey Doban, an associate partner at Gruzen Samton, of the odd and desperate armada that formed to help ferry people off Manhattan.

It used to be Basement Jaxx or Groove Armada that were the top of the tree, now it's me or Pendulum or Chase & Status.

He therefore spent the rest of his active days, using his training as a maritime engineer, to pursue the wrecks of the Spanish Armada that had sailed against England in 1588.

During the past three months, the international coalition, fielding a nine-country armada that includes Australian F-18s, British Typhoons, Italian C-27Js, and American F-16s, Raptors, and B-52s, has launched more than ten thousand munitions.

And in the pre-dawn hours, planes rumbled down runways; gliders and paratroopers slipped through the sky; giant screws began to turn on an armada that looked like more ships than sea.

I have a Compaq Armada laptop that's like my right arm.

"I'd always wanted to become an elite diver," Vincent says, "but before Andy approached us we actually heard from the Chinese because some of their divers were at the Armada Cup that year.

Martin Goldschmidt, the founder and chief executive of independent record label Cooking Vinyl, whose artists include Marilyn Manson, Amanda Palmer, Billy Bragg and Groove Armada, says that Swift's decision could certainly not have been because the video service pays better.

The greatest compliment to Armada is that it will likely keep you guessing more than its predecessor.

The Isle of Wight could have been used to support French operations against England had it been captured; Claude d'Annebault, commander of the French armada, recorded that "having it [the Isle of Wight] under our control, we [the French] could then dominate Portsmouth... and so put the enemy to extraordinary expense in maintaining a standing army and navy to contain us".