On this page you'll find 8 example sentences with Flotillas. Discover the meaning, how to use the word correctly in a sentence.
Flotillas meaning
plural of flotilla
Using Flotillas
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of flotilla
Context around Flotillas
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 5 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 8 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Flotillas
- In this selection, "flotillas" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 26.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, huge, previous, defense and moved stand out and add context to how "flotillas" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and 12th flotillas while taking and are two flotillas on their. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "flotillas" sits close to words such as aargau, abacos and abboud, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with flotillas
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
She was a participant (resistor) on five previous flotillas that never reached Gaza. (13 words)
Never again would massive flotillas of Scandinavians meet each year to ravage the rest of Christian Europe. (17 words)
They are sustained by feeding on animal plankton and drift around in huge flotillas which can contain millions of individuals. (20 words)
Algerian War As soon as they disembarked from the carriers that took part in Operation Musketeer, at the end of 1956, all three Corsair Flotillas, moved to Telergma and Oran airfields in Algeria from where they provided CAS and helicopter escort. (41 words)
Putting pikemen where boats are going to land and archers on a cliff may sound nice and simple, but it becomes less so when there are two flotillas on their way, each approaching a different side of the island. (39 words)
It proposed what would nowadays be termed a sea denial strategy, based on fast, long-ranged cruisers for commerce raiding and torpedo boat flotillas to attack enemy ships attempting to blockade French ports. (33 words)
Example sentences (8)
They are sustained by feeding on animal plankton and drift around in huge flotillas which can contain millions of individuals.
She was a participant (resistor) on five previous flotillas that never reached Gaza.
Sturkmen sailed back to Karlskrona and notified the nearby Swedish naval base, which harbored two of Sweden’s three coastal defense flotillas.
Putting pikemen where boats are going to land and archers on a cliff may sound nice and simple, but it becomes less so when there are two flotillas on their way, each approaching a different side of the island.
Algerian War As soon as they disembarked from the carriers that took part in Operation Musketeer, at the end of 1956, all three Corsair Flotillas, moved to Telergma and Oran airfields in Algeria from where they provided CAS and helicopter escort.
It proposed what would nowadays be termed a sea denial strategy, based on fast, long-ranged cruisers for commerce raiding and torpedo boat flotillas to attack enemy ships attempting to blockade French ports.
Never again would massive flotillas of Scandinavians meet each year to ravage the rest of Christian Europe.
She served, first as part of the 4th U-boat Flotilla while carrying out training, then as part of the 10th and 12th flotillas while taking part in operations.