How to Use corvette in a Sentence

corvette

noun

• Cambodia’s own smaller corvettes dock at a much more modest pier to the south.
  — Agnes Chang, New York Times, 14 July 2024
• The Russian corvettes are armed with air defense and anti-ship missiles.
  — Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Newsweek, 4 Feb. 2025
• Its maritime arm dispatched frigates and corvettes to patrol the coastal waters with little event.
  — Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2024
• The auction would include two storied photos of Didion with her white corvette.
  — Mattie Kahn, Town & Country, 18 Nov. 2022
• There could be several million dollars’ worth of Corvettes lined up at each gathering.
  — Story and Photos By Lance Murray, star-telegram.com, 24 May 2017
• The real showstopper here is the life-sized pink corvette parked on the fourth floor of the museum, which guests can sit inside for a selfie.
  — Nadja Sayej, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2024
• Iran has sent a stealth missile corvette and a patrol ship, according to Iranian state media.
  — Nectar Gan, CNN, 10 Mar. 2025
• All the while, Russia is slated to launch two icebreaking corvette-class ships armed with cruise missiles in the next several years.
  — chicagotribune.com, 4 May 2017
• The Pohang-class corvettes were some of the first large warships built by South Korean shipyards.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 9 May 2017
• Corvette Cleveland was founded as a club for those with a strong interest in Corvettes, as well as a desire to socialize and compete.
  — Terry Troy, cleveland.com, 17 May 2017
• Two weeks before that, its military intelligence claimed to have sunk the corvette Ivanovets, also off the peninsula’s coast.
  — Yuliya Talmazan, NBC News, 5 Mar. 2024
• Corvettes have become too common, Jaguars too mainstream, BMWs too numerous.
  — Mark Savage, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 1 Aug. 2017
• Come early to enjoy the collection of classic cars including Mustangs and Corvettes.
  — charlotteobserver, 29 May 2017
• The Ukrainian defense ministry also has licensed a Turkish design for a 327-foot corvette.
  — David Axe, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2021
• The Type 056 Jiangdao class is a general-purpose corvette, armed with light weapons, designed for offshore patrol duties.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 29 Mar. 2018
• The Steregushchiy-class corvette Sovershennyy and a supply ship rendezvoused last week with a Chinese naval task force for the countries' fourth annual .
  — Ryan Chan, Newsweek, 9 July 2024
• The navy also fields six Osa II missile boats, Pauk-class corvettes, minesweepers and numerous smaller patrol and support craft.
  — Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 28 May 2026
• Based on their hull numbers, the Russian vessels were the Pacific Fleet's missile cruiser Varyag and the corvette Gromkiy.
  — Ryan Chan, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Sep. 2025
• As a tribute to Schubert, Cutler positioned a red Corvette and a male figure with a tiny camera with a flash bulb at one particular spot along the train’s route.
  — Lauren Ritchie, OrlandoSentinel.com, 17 Aug. 2017
• The Grammy award-winning band was followed by a dozen corvettes carrying honorees and the university's new president, Dwayne Tucker.
  — Vivian Jones, Nashville Tennessean, 18 Oct. 2025
• At Baltiysk, home to the Baltic Fleet and Russia’s most western outpost, grizzled fishermen lined the sea wall, barely glancing up at the modern corvettes steaming out to sea.
  — Neil MacFarquhar, New York Times, 16 Apr. 2016
• The rear is taken up by a number of small, corvette-sized ships and one larger ship with a wider beam that does not appear to be a warship—possibly a PLAN oceanographic survey ship.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 29 Mar. 2018
• According to Luck, China already operates a wide range of anti-ship missiles, deployed on smaller vessels like missile boats, corvettes, and frigates, as well as larger, newer destroyers.
  — Ryan Chan, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Aug. 2025
• Its Russian captain allegedly acted on Russian intelligence and a Russian corvette ran reconnaissance.
  — Jill Goldenziel, Forbes.com, 26 June 2026
• Sweden currently operates three upgraded Gotland-class and one Södermanland-class submarine, supported by four Visby-class stealth corvettes.
  — Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 12 Nov. 2025
• At 300 warship hulls, the PLAN is the largest navy in the world, counting aircraft carriers, cruisers, destroyers, frigates, corvettes, submarines, and amphibious assault ships.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 20 May 2019
• There is also reportedly interest in partnering with allies for smaller Golden Fleet variants, something akin to NATO corvettes or modular builds.
  — Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 26 Oct. 2025
• This can all quickly change if the Navy gets real about their fuel demands, acknowledges the Pacific will be contested, and confronts the looming logistical challenge of keeping vast numbers of autonomous corvettes and other small support craft operational in a conflict.
  — Craig Hooper, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
• Hull numbers provided by Japan's Defense Ministry identified the Russian vessels as the frigate Marshal Shaposhnikov, the corvette Gremyashchy and a replenishment ship.
  — Ryan Chan, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Oct. 2025
• Larger warships on the horizon To strengthen its surface fleet, Sweden is also developing new Luleå-class frigates, which are nearly twice the size of the current Visby-class corvettes, to carry advanced air-defense systems, including vertical launch missiles.
  — Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 12 Nov. 2025