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单词 flotilla
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Examples from literature
  • At one time quite a flotilla of boats lay around us, looking very pretty with all their flags flying.
  • Here, a flotilla of canoes lay concealed where he had been hunting wild-fowl but a few hours before.
  • In this engagement, the best schooner belonging to the American flotilla was burnt, and a gondola was sunk.
  • One night we had lain with our flotilla on the Virginia coast.
  • When the races were over, the yachts were towed back to the city by a large steamer, escorted by a whole flotilla of every kind of craft loaded with sightseers.

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After they had lain hove-to for 14 hours, the wind slackened, the seas became less violent, and the smallflotillagot under way again.
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In three days two flotillas of destroyers burn nearly 5,000 tons of oil.
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Oneflotillaleader and eight destroyers have been sent out.
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Is it not obvious that we shall again need, for anti-submarine duties, our already overworked flotillas of destroyers?
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We are forming a seventhflotillaof twenty destroyers this year.
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There will be only 65flotillaleaders and destroyers, amounting to 90,000 tons, within the age limit at the end of 1936.
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In war the real work of trade protection has always been primarily carried out by small cruising ships and flotillas.
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My opinion is that your commerce protectingflotillawill really become death traps for gallant lives.
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The charts are the end product of a well-organised chain of events which begins at sea with the work of the surveyingflotilla.
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What is his estimate of the likely annual cost to the national health service of theflotillaof pen pushers that he proposes to create?
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I am told that thisflotillais designed specifically for that purpose.
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Are those flotillas still atflotillastrength, or have any of them been brought home?
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I said that there would be an average of oneflotillaa year over the whole period.
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He was asked by a foreign naval attache to tell him the strength and numbers of the destroyer flotillas.
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Active submarine training is being carried out by these flotillas and each has very modern and fine submarines.
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