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
  • Imagine a flotilla of spacecraft going to and from the Moon.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 3 May 2024
  • The safety divers move King’s stick-figure form to the flotilla and punch an oxygen mask to his face.
    — James Nestor, Outside Online, 25 Jan. 2012
  • Helmer is one of many islanders who now rent out rooms on their flotilla through Airbnb.
    — Tim Brinkhof, Discover Magazine, 12 Nov. 2023
  • Food came in by sea as a flotilla defied the shelling to bring necessities to the city.
    — Elise Patkotak, Alaska Dispatch News, 25 Oct. 2017
  • There was the flotilla of Ferraris and Bugattis and Maseratis.
    — Casey Michel, Rolling Stone, 8 Oct. 2021
  • The Russian flotilla could move south through the Caribbean, down to Venezuela, as soon as next week.
    — Michael Wilner, Miami Herald, 14 June 2024
  • 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
  • Toward the end of the run, a flotilla of rafts had put in and paddlers waited in line to jump 20 feet from a shelf of rock into the water.
    — Patrick Scott, WSJ, 3 Apr. 2018
  • 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
  • The river doesn’t need to be an attraction for a flotilla of plastic boats.
    — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 5 June 2019
  • 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
  • Instead, organizers are planning to parade a flotilla of boats down the Seine that runs through the heart of the city.
    — Chad De Guzman, TIME, 13 June 2024
  • The small flotilla of tourist boats is about 23 kilometers (14 miles) offshore.
    — Time, 3 June 2020
  • The concept of a flotilla of British civilian boats rolling in to save the day was initially seen as a futile gesture.
    — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 5 May 2017
  • In response, the U.S. Navy deployed warships and aircraft to track the Russian naval flotilla.
    — Alexandra Glorioso, Miami Herald, 14 June 2024
  • 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
  • Flotillas of county marine deputies and Coast Guard sailors will escort them.
    — Bill Monroe, OregonLive.com, 2 June 2017
  • Thousands of athletes will be part of a flotilla sailing along the River Seine at sunset toward the Eiffel Tower.
    — Tim Reynolds, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 July 2024

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