How to Use flotilla in a Sentence

flotilla

noun
Definition of flotillanext
Synonyms for flotillanext
  • To count the swans, the flotilla of skiffs row up the Thames for five days.
    — The New York Times Elaine Chen Emily Anthes, New York Times, 18 May 2023
  • The Navy did not say how close the flotilla was to Taiwan.
    — Eric Cheung, CNN, 23 Jan. 2022
  • Collins put out the planer boards, and flotilla of Jet Divers towing a school of small spoons.
    — cleveland, 17 June 2021
  • There was the flotilla of Ferraris and Bugattis and Maseratis.
    — Casey Michel, Rolling Stone, 8 Oct. 2021
  • Beyond that, there’s a flotilla that skims stray fuel and oil.
    — Andrew Lawrence, Car and Driver, 19 July 2021
  • Nearby, a frothy bend in the river hosted a flotilla of teal blue rafts, our transport for the week.
    — Lauren Mowery, Forbes, 5 July 2022
  • The country can’t address this dark moment with a flotilla of ships.
    — Andrew Morris-Singer and Brian Souza, STAT, 9 May 2022
  • Again, the activists responded, this time with a flotilla of boats blocking the blast zone.
    — Clarissa Dawes, National Geographic, 11 Oct. 2020
  • Fans will be in the park, but the team has asked for a flotilla of fans to assemble on boats, paddleboards and kayaks on the water.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 21 July 2021
  • They were preceded by the flotilla of Trump children, who took their places at the front of the audience.
    — Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 4 Nov. 2020
  • The parade of nations will be a 162-boat flotilla on the Seine River, with spectators able to watch from the banks for free.
    — Evan Hilbert, USA TODAY, 2 Feb. 2022
  • Unencumbered by the looming threat of the US Navy, the crew of the Rezkiy and other ships of the flotilla indulged in bouts of recreation.
    — Elliot Ackerman, Wired, 2 Mar. 2021
  • Boats the size of the Magestic must moor more than one hundred yards out, as a flotilla of dinghies, rowed from the stern with a single oar, ferry goods to the dock.
    — Rowan Moore Gerety, Harper's magazine, 10 June 2019
  • The small flotilla of tourist boats is about 23 kilometers (14 miles) offshore.
    — Time, 3 June 2020
  • That is not because this luckless flotilla poses a threat to Britain; rather that the Channel is the world’s busiest shipping lane.
    — The Economist, 15 Aug. 2020
  • The tule reed craft will be accompanied on the bay crossing by a small flotilla of modern boats, in case a rescue is in the cards.
    — Steve Rubenstein, SFChronicle.com, 13 Oct. 2019
  • For the first commando raid, Borghese had bought a flotilla of jet skis to transport 20 men to a Russian base on Cape Tarkhankut.
    — Oleksandr Chubko, New York Times, 22 Oct. 2023
  • Still bereft of propulsion, the ship was converted into a coal barge, a supply ship for a doomed flotilla.
    — David Reamer | Alaska History, Anchorage Daily News, 25 June 2023
  • The Navy last week sortied, from San Diego, a flotilla of manned and unmanned surface vessels and submarines.
    — David Axe, Forbes, 28 Apr. 2021
  • And on the water recently, a flotilla was taking shape.
    — New York Times, 14 June 2022
  • Thousands of people at both airports sat amid a flotilla of bags, trying to figure out what to do.
    — Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 27 Dec. 2022
  • Nagy said her father, a Navy man, helped the family escape Hungary by leading a flotilla out of the city in 1942.
    — Elaine Ayala, San Antonio Express-News, 13 May 2021
  • Beach umbrellas as well as a flotilla of inflated rafts and water toys add to the spirit of fun.
    — Jack Schnedler, Arkansas Online, 13 June 2023
  • On Monday, a flotilla of tugboats helped by the tides wrenched the bulbous bow of Ever Given from the canal’s sandy bank, where it had been firmly lodged.
    — Samy Magdy and Jon Gambrell, The Christian Science Monitor, 31 Mar. 2021
  • On Monday, a flotilla of tugboats helped by the tides, wrenched the bulbous bow of Ever Given from the canal’s sandy bank, where it had been firmly lodged.
    — Samy Magdy and Jon Gambrell, Chron, 30 Mar. 2021
  • Helped by the tides, a flotilla of tugboats wrenched the bulbous bow of the skyscraper-sized Ever Given from the canal’s sandy bank, where it had been firmly lodged since March 23.
    — Frank Miles, Fox News, 30 Mar. 2021
  • The flotilla was joined by two more feeder ships, this time arriving from Russia.
    — Jared Malsin, WSJ, 1 Dec. 2022
  • The marquee event is the Grand Floral Parade, a mile-long flower flotilla that stretches from one end of downtown to the other.
    — WIRED, 14 Sep. 2022
  • Protesters in Jerusalem drew a large red and pink streak on city streets leading to the Supreme Court and a small flotilla of bloats blocked the shipping lane off the coast of the northern city of Haifa.
    — Josef Federman and Ami Bentov, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Mar. 2023
  • There was also a flotilla of sacred boats that made their way to the temple, according to the transcriptions.
    — Haggag Salama, ajc, 25 Nov. 2021

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