Sentence examples for the frigate from inspiring English sources
noun
An obsolete type of sailing warship with a single continuous gun deck, typically used for patrolling, blockading, etc, but not in line of battle.
Above, the frigate bird soars.
He served for four years, partly aboard the frigate U.S.S.
When the frigate Philadelphia ran aground there in 1804, its sailors were imprisoned and eventually ransomed.
CHRONICLES OF THE FRIGATE MACEDONIAN, 1809-1922, by James Tertius de Kay.
Cuts in the frigate programme would greatly reduce what can be done even further.
"The frigate will peel off at some point, and the destroyer will stay with them".
Yet the most flexible and agile naval surface ship – the frigate – is being downgraded.
James Lawrence on the frigate Chesapeake, captured by the British outside Boston in 1813.
Javier told us the frigate birds feed their young for two years.
These included HMS Dauntless and the frigate HMS Lancaster, which were both docked in Portsmouth.
To this duty has been added antisubmarine warfare, the traditional role of the frigate.
