Sentence examples for fleet away from inspiring English sources

They fleet away like the shadows of clouds blown across the lower slopes of the mountains".

The bus operator in the San Gabriel and Pomona Valleys outside Los Angeles is at the forefront of transitioning its fleet away from fossil fuels.

The threat of British invasion seemed more remote than ever after the South Carolinians had driven the British fleet away from Charleston.

In May 1916, Admiral Reinhard Scheer, the fleet commander, planned to lure a portion of the British fleet away from its bases and destroy it with the entire High Seas Fleet.

An early strategic plan by Isoroku Yamamoto involved the occupation of the western Aleutians as well as Midway Island as a 'decoy' to lure the United States Navy's Pacific fleet away from Pearl Harbor so as to effect the complete destruction of the Hawaiian base before reconstruction efforts could take hold.

The expansion of the fleet, to more than 700 vessels by 1989, was accompanied by an expansion of the range of the fleet, away from Sicilian and Calabrian waters in the south, to the Ligurian Sea in the north.

But some MPs described them as heroes for keeping foreign fishing fleets away from Somali shores, and said they were acting as unofficial coastguards.

The rest of the fleet sailed away - albeit terribly slowly in the lightest of light winds - while Ainslie and Railey mooched around at the back.

Korea still refused to negotiate, and the American fleet sailed away.

The colonial officers destroy the ship while the rest of the colonial fleet jumps away.

Following its attacks on the Tokyo Bay area on 18 July, the Allied fleet sailed away from Japan to be refueled.