How to Use fleet in a Sentence

fleet

1 of 2 noun

• The company has a large fleet of delivery trucks.
• He was the commander of the Pacific fleet.
• This is not the first time a criminal’s fleet has been seized and used for good, of course.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 27 Dec. 2023
• Those norms will be set by the nations that go to the Moon and then send a fleet of spacecraft over time.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 18 Jan. 2024
• This order will double the airline’s fleet over the next decade.
  — Marisa Garcia, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2023
• The airline hopes to retrofit its entire mainline fleet by the end of 2026.
  — Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 27 July 2023
• Iran will soon receive the first batch of a new fleet of Russian fighter jets.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 31 May 2023
• Finally, stay in one of the Iconic Suites, the largest in the Celebrity fleet, for the ultimate splurge.
  — Lauren Dana Ellman, Travel + Leisure, 15 Feb. 2024
• As of Monday, his fuel was gone and his fleet grounded.
  — Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 31 Oct. 2023
• Since the crash, the cause of which remains unknown, the entire fleet of Taipans, has been grounded, according to the AP.
  — Brian Brant, Peoplemag, 3 Aug. 2023
• Smaller fleets dock in the heart of town, making exploration easy.
  — Maridel Reyes, Women's Health, 6 June 2023
• Even against some of the toughest ships of Moscow’s Black Sea fleet, the drones have proved their effectiveness.
  — Joseph Ataman, CNN, 5 Feb. 2024
• As new car sales rebound, the average age of the US’s fleet will diminish once again.
  — Niharika Sharma, Quartz, 15 May 2023
• There are few details about the actual design of the Sirius fleet.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 12 Jan. 2024
• My fleets blot out the sun and bathe their world in ominous darkness, all in a lead-up to the activation of my deadly weapon.
  — WIRED, 20 Sep. 2023
• The current fleet will all get two fans per van after the contract is ratified.
  — Chris Isidore, CNN, 14 June 2023
• The commander of the Russian fleet was, however, shown in video a day after Ukraine claimed he had been killed.
  — Daryna Mayer, NBC News, 6 Oct. 2023
• This has made the country’s drone fleet more predictable, with less variation in tactics and type.
  — Yurii Shyvala, New York Times, 12 Mar. 2024
• In July, Amazon announced that its fleet was 5,000-strong; now it's doubled in size.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 18 Oct. 2023
• The regulations have triggered a run on diesel rigs as carriers add to their fleets ahead of the Jan. 1 bar against new diesel trucks at ports.
  — Paul Berger, WSJ, 15 Nov. 2023
• This is the second time Tesla has had to issue a software fix to its entire fleet in recent months.
  — Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 2 Feb. 2024
• Buses: For anywhere Madrid's dozen or so metro and light rail lines can't take you, the city operates a fleet of more than 2,000 buses.
  — Meena Thiruvengadam, Travel + Leisure, 21 Sep. 2023
• The fleet patrols a 48 million-square-mile area that covers parts of the Pacific and Indian oceans.
  — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Feb. 2024
• Large orders will be delivered by a fleet of drones, the companies say.
  — Chris Morris, Fortune, 22 Mar. 2024
• But in August, the company cut its Bay Area fleet by 50% after two accidents on the same day.
  — Kris Van Cleave, CBS News, 4 Oct. 2023
• The infants who were evacuated to Egypt on Monday were received by a fleet of medics.
  — Hajar Harb, Washington Post, 21 Nov. 2023
• In 1853, following two centuries of near complete isolation, a fleet of U.S. Navy ships forced Japan to open to trade at the point of a cannon.
  — Chris Cameron, Robb Report, 12 Aug. 2023
• The Russian fleet headquarters was badly damaged in the attack.
  — Eric Nagourney, New York Times, 26 Sep. 2023
• The government relies on the animals to fill gaps in its own vehicle fleet.
  — Steve Hendrix, Washington Post, 6 Oct. 2023
• Russia has begun to circumvent the sanctions by moving oil on a fleet of aging tankers.
  — Richard Vanderford, WSJ, 16 Nov. 2023

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fleet

2 of 2 verb

• And youth and beauty, all of these things are fleeting.
  — Laura Cohen, Redbook, 17 June 2017
• The winds that cleared much of that haze Thursday and Friday were fleeting.
  — Matt Day, The Seattle Times, 27 Aug. 2018
• While some of them are fleeting, others last for weeks.
  — Abigail Van Buren, Twin Cities, 18 June 2019
• Or fleeting protection from the ire of Trump’s fan base.
  — Catherine Rampell, The Denver Post, 31 Jan. 2017
• Retail sales plunged 10.5%, while sales to fleet customers were flat.
  — Nathan Bomey, USA TODAY, 2 May 2017
• Because these good times are fleeting, and that plate of food is getting cold.
  — Laura Neilson, Vogue, 11 Sep. 2017
• Of course, Ireland knows that success is fleeting in the NFL, and praise one year can turn into calls to be fired the next.
  — Josh Katzenstein, NOLA.com, 28 Feb. 2018
• A 14 percent slide in sales to fleet customers drove Ford’s decline.
  — Jamie Butters, Bloomberg.com, 3 July 2017
• Some of the sports in this nearly 100-year history have been fleeting.
  — Author: Tik Root, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Feb. 2018
• It was originally promised to fleet customers early this year and to others by the end of the year.
  — Annie White, Car and Driver, 8 June 2021
• But amid the mess, there were gems -- fleeting moments where the weird-but-good ratio landed just right.
  — Tatiana Cirisano, Billboard, 23 Aug. 2019
• There's always a sense too that this magical world is fleeting as the miles tick by.
  — Katie Walsh, chicagotribune.com, 18 May 2017
• Any clouds are fleeting as highs rise to the mid-70s, with some upper 70s intermixed.
  — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 20 Oct. 2017
• The cruise line unveiled two new specialty suites this week that will be rolled out to fleet members Star Breeze and Star Pride.
  — Dana Givens, Robb Report, 13 Jan. 2023
• Those ooh-look-at-me cookies are an easy pleasure, a hard sugar high fast and fleeting.
  — Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2019
• The costs of the monarchy are considerable; the gains fleeting, mythical or the stuff of PR fantasies.
  — Graham Smith, Time, 18 May 2018
• Though the show was fleeting, her bold look was certainly one to be remembered.
  — Rachel Hahn, Vogue, 30 Jan. 2018
• Your face in the cloud Means privacy is fleetingTime to get offline?
  — Ellen McGirt, Fortune, 19 July 2019
• Even three years later, in the area where his truck was recovered, phone service is fleeting.
  — Jason Pohl, azcentral, 12 Jan. 2018
• Sometimes happiness can seem like fleeting moments, but this one has been staying in the same lane for a long time.
  — Stephanie Petit, PEOPLE.com, 3 July 2018
• Stardom in the music business is fleeting to put it kindly.
  — The Aegis, 13 July 2018
• This one fleeting glance has a gentle sense of pride that permeates the layers of fabric and fellow sailors.
  — Kristen McNicholas, National Geographic, 2 Aug. 2019
• But his greatness was fleeting; Murray's was far lengthier, and more consistent: 41 weeks at No. 1 in the heart of the Big 3 era!
  — Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 3 July 2019
• But such opportunities could be fleeting for many in the field.
  — Steve Peoples, The Denver Post, 16 July 2019
• Though that celebrity is fleeting, and though it's tied to an outrageous (sometimes ridiculous) stunt, the team learn to revel in it.
  — Kevin Warwick, Chicago Reader, 22 Mar. 2018
• And a lucky glimpse of their bushy tail skimming over cactuses and creosote bushes is fleeting.
  — Alex Devoid, azcentral, 27 Mar. 2018
• Some have also questioned how fleeting this new role might be: As the AI advances, won’t the humans just be training themselves out of a job?
  — Drew Harwell, Washington Post, 25 Feb. 2023
• The Berkeley Charter boats fleet fished Central Bay for bass and halibut or ran outside to hook into limits of salmon.
  — Sacbee, sacbee.com, 3 July 2017
• Some of the yellow cardinals have been observed over several months, while some of the sightings have been fleeting.
  — Dennis Pillion | [e-mail], al, 15 Oct. 2019
• The good times were fleeting since Alabama intercepted four passes in the game.
  — Michael Casagrande | [e-mail], al, 24 Nov. 2019

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