Sentence examples for fleet from inspiring English sources

'fleet' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is mainly used as a noun to mean a large group or collection of animals or vehicles such as ships, cars, or airplanes. For example, "The fleet of fighter jets was sent to patrol the border."

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fleet

verb

To float.

  • [Antony] "Our sever'd navy too,Have knit again, and fleet, threat'ning most sea-like." -- Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra

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The federal government is the top energy consumer in the country, with 360,000 buildings, 650,000 fleet vehicles, and $445bn spent annually on goods and services, according to a White House fact sheet.

He earns about £150,000 a week and his private fleet of cars includes a Rolls-Royce, a Bentley, a Hummer, a BMW and two Porsches.

It also gathers data from telematics units installed in fleet vehicles as well as in-dash systems, giving TomTom a comprehensive overview of traffic flows.

The commander in chief of the Royal Navy fleet until March this year, Soar told the undercover reporters he knew "all the ministers" at the MoD.

And some stuff you may not know and won't believe about polar bears and our Airbus refuelling fleet.

Two hundred and sixty years ago this month a swashbuckling Yorkshireman known as Lieutenant Colonel Robert Monckton led a fleet of warships containing 270 English troops across Atlantic waters and into the mouth of the Missaguash river.

Come up with imaginative proposals for suitable uses for the "Pacer" fleet and build new trains here in the North.

Today, Tuesday, a number of MPs are questioning why Britain needs to renew its fleet of Trident submarines equipped with intercontinental ballistic missiles armed with nuclear warheads.

The large majority of Conservative MPs, and most Labour MPs it seems, want to renew the Trident fleet at an estimated cost of £100bn.

That would require a significant investment from Apple and a fleet of cars to photograph and map roads.

Our director's masterstroke for Merchant was a mime sequence to open the play - Bassanio striding on to gaze at Portia's portrait, Shylock jangling a money pouch from a balcony window, Antonio scanning the horizon with a telescope for his fleet of ships - each character miming a silent vignette of their forthcoming journey through the play, all to a tape of olde worlde crumhorn music.

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