Sentence examples for flotilla down from inspiring English sources
CEBR predict that the Queen's diamond jubilee, to be celebrated with a flotilla down the Thames on the first weekend of June, will be a rousing success.
He wrote that Johnston's force was too strong to hit directly; instead, he laid out an alternative plan to send a flotilla down the Potomac and Chesapeake Bay and up the Rappahanock River to Urbana, on Virginia's Middle Peninsula.
When the organisers advertised for 1,000 assorted boats to accompany the Queen by taking part in a flotilla down the Thames on 3 June, they were 10 times over-subscribed.
Yet it clawed its way back into the limelight via a series of confrontational stunts seemingly designed to start a row, from the infamous Breaking Point poster with its snaking queue of immigrants to the Brexit flotilla down the Thames.
The Royal flotilla down the Thames will be the first in 350 years, but it has a long tradition dating back to the coronation of Anne Boleyn in 1533 and an extravagant musical event held in 1717 by King George I.
Despite the odds no German vessel struck her colours and the entire Flotilla went down fighting to the end.
It was the first time that many local residents could remember that the Connecticut River, which often floods in the spring, also flooded in October, ripping pumpkins from their roots and driving them in orange flotillas down the river.
They also lead flotillas down to the Statue of Liberty, where your sightline will approximate that of a bobbing seagull, or up to the Intrepid Museum at the foot of West 46th Street.
Today, then, the 1,000-boat 1,000-boatails down the Thames with the Queen riding on a gilded barge smothered in 10,000 flotilla among them 4,000 carnationsails
Later that day, an historic 1,000-strong 1,000-strongded down the Thames and according to organisers, more than a million people turned out to watch.
When my delegation asked some dissidents how America could improve life in Cuba, they said, "Send a flotilla of cruise ships down here, and let the passengers fan out over the entire island".
