How to Use fleet in a Sentence

fleet

1 of 3 noun

• The company has a large fleet of delivery trucks.
• He was the commander of the Pacific fleet.
• The rest of the fleet is still backed up.
  — Güney Yıldız, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026
• All planes in the fleet were grounded.
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 12 June 2026
• Our entire truck fleet were put on tracks.
  — Carole Horst, Variety, 10 Sep. 2025
• And there was no fish left for the charter boat fleet.
  — Dan Morrison, USA Today, 7 Nov. 2025
• At the top sits the fleet-level AI.
  — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 5 Feb. 2026
• But the existence of the dark fleet doesn’t mean that the rules of the sea have failed.
  — Charles Edward Gehrke, The Conversation, 10 Mar. 2026
• Mojo is the new flagship of the Dutch yard’s fleet.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 23 Mar. 2026
• The fleet is expected to arrive as soon as next week.
  — Leonardo Feldman, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Nov. 2025
• 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
• But the city is looking to add to its porcelain fleet this summer.
  — Amethyst Martinez, USA Today, 22 June 2026
• Sixers and Cavs, dispatched in eight fleet games.
  — Vinson Cunningham, New Yorker, 2 June 2026
• So this is almost three lifetimes per week that our fleet is driving.
  — Anderson Cooper, CBS News, 17 May 2026
• Iran has made extensive use of its drone fleet in the opening days of the war.
  — Simon Shuster, The Atlantic, 5 Mar. 2026
• The fastest trains in Amtrak's fleet are getting even faster.
  — Joel Rose, NPR, 28 Aug. 2025
• Many rooms have bunks for families, and the lodge has a fleet of cabins too.
  — Jess Hoffert, Midwest Living, 9 May 2026
• This order will double the airline’s fleet over the next decade.
  — Marisa Garcia, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2023
• Still, Hansen's age has brought a new level of respect among the fleet.
  — Deirdre Durkan, PEOPLE, 4 June 2026
• Belmond’s fleet of small, tony riverboats is about to gain a new member.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 17 Mar. 2026
• While not the most fleet of foot, Perez floored the gas pedal toward home plate.
  — Kansas City Star, 3 May 2026
• That’s roughly a third of the existing fleet.
  — Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 6 Feb. 2026
• Cities could adapt to fleets of driverless vehicles.
  — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 9 Mar. 2026
• The cruises are offered throughout the line’s fleet.
  — Nathan Diller, USA Today, 4 Sep. 2025
• The Cocos were joined last fall by members of Serve’s fleet.
  — Talia Soglin, Chicago Tribune, 26 Mar. 2026
• The island’s governor fired a cannon to send the fleet on its way.
  — Chrissie McClatchie, Robb Report, 14 Mar. 2026
• His team analyzes fleet needs and comes up with a proposal that makes sense.
  — Kristin Shaw, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
• Taxi fleets in Europe ran them into the ground and then kept running them.
  — Sean Evans, Robb Report, 12 Mar. 2026
• The days are numbered for Eddie Bauer’s store fleet.
  — Jean E. Palmieri, Footwear News, 9 Feb. 2026
• Iran will soon receive the first batch of a new fleet of Russian fighter jets.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 31 May 2023

fleet

2 of 3 adjective

• Britain won the first of three fleet races Sunday.
  — ABC News, 1 Mar. 2026
• Her star-wattage smile sets the tone for the friendly, fleet front-of-house staff.
  — Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 16 Mar. 2024
• Moth Days, in a relatively fleet process, got about a year and a half.
  — Christopher Bonanos, Vulture, 23 Feb. 2026
• While Onyewu and Elliott aren't the fleetest of foot, both are rarely out of position.
  — Marc Narducci, Philly.com, 19 May 2017
• Some diehard Romantics might object that Hough is too fleet in his approach.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 24 Jan. 2022
• The plan calls for up to 550 units, with steady monthly output to sustain fleet readiness.
  — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 9 Apr. 2026
• Airlines generally plan for fleet growth years in advance, and the bulk of an aircraft's price is paid when a carrier receives it.
  — Leslie Josephs, CNBC, 9 June 2026
• Davis added that the company will continue to re-evaluate its fleet size ahead of upcoming meetings with its union leaders.
  — Hugh Cameron, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Sep. 2025
• Receiver Jaylen Erwin on Sunday didn’t list Allen among the fleetest players on the team.
  — Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2019
• Consider how fleet management companies like Samsara and Geotab have gained ground.
  — Thomas Ryd, Forbes.com, 23 Feb. 2026
• During the orchestral prelude, Daniel Barenboim drew a crisp, clean and fleet performance from the players.
  — New York Times, 13 Mar. 2020
• The mano-a-mano match race finals, in which one yacht might simply sail away from the other and on to victory, might not be as thrilling as fleet races, which have multiple boats jostling in tight quarters.
  — Luke O'Brien, Town & Country, 1 Sep. 2013
• Musk has indicated the company may look to boost fleet sales to commercial customers in response to questions about Cybertruck’s murky prospects.
  — Bloomberg, Mercury News, 16 Apr. 2026
• Now with a dozen all-suite, luxury cruise and expedition ships, Silversea’s fleet voyages to enchanting destinations around the globe.
  — Susan B. Barnes, Southern Living, 12 Mar. 2026
• Nauto’s alarms can be triggered not only in the driver’s cabin but also in fleet supervisors’ offices of the trucking company that uses the system.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 6 Sep. 2025
• The fleet feet of Nikki Meletidis created an opportunity in the 38th minute.
  — Chris Hays, The Orlando Sentinel, 26 Feb. 2026
• In fast and fleet fashion, Pohjonen zipped through the outer movements, producing a good deal of color and subtly underlining the score's jazz elements.
  — Tim Smith, baltimoresun.com, 5 May 2017
• Fiji Airways is the smallest airline by fleet size to ever receive the honor and the only airline in Oceania to win, according to the carrier.
  — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 22 Sep. 2025
• During that time, Chinese shipyards have been turning out warships at frenetic pace, the nation surpassing the US in fleet size several years ago.
  — Brad Lendon, CNN Money, 26 Nov. 2025
• Car rental companies divested themselves of many of their fleet cars in the early days of the pandemic, and were not able to quickly replenish them due to microchip shortages and supply chain problems among automakers.
  — William Thornton | [email protected], al, 23 Aug. 2023
• The fleet buildup is designed to prevent such single points of failure, and the new bill contains language that would require NOAA to have backup aircraft on hand for each mission.
  — Andrew Freedman, CNN Money, 17 June 2026
• By comparison, Amazon has a fleet size of 93 aircraft as of June 30, according to data from Planespotters.
  — Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 3 July 2024
• The service was also facing the retirement of older, larger ships and was looking for ways to maintain its fleet size with smaller surface combatants that could be built more quickly and cheaply than bigger vessels, the report said.
  — Brad Lendon, CNN Money, 28 May 2026
• Alicia Tillman Alicia Tillman is currently the chief marketing officer at Delta, the world’s largest airline by both fleet size and market cap.
  — Slma Shelbayah, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026
• The Navy sees these vessels as a potential way to increase fleet size without the enormous cost and manpower requirements associated with traditional warships.
  — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 1 June 2026
• Burns thinks his company can compete for a share of the electric vehicle market by being quicker to adjust to technology and by targeting commercial, fleet customers who want more than what conventional trucks can supply.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 8 Nov. 2019
• Burns thinks his company can compete for a share of the electric vehicle market by being quicker to adjust to new technology and by targeting commercial, fleet customers who want more than what conventional trucks can supply.
  — Washington Post, 7 Nov. 2019
• Or lovers-to-be, for the bulk of its cheerfully fleet 82-minute runtime — not that Nathan Bryon and Tom Melia’s fast-talking script leaves us in any doubt as to their destiny from their first sweetly awkward meet-cute.
  — Guy Lodge, Variety, 16 Mar. 2023
• Building in predictive alerts to provide real time coaching is what is needed, and companies like Nauto are innovating rapidly in fleet predictive intelligence looking ahead vs analyzing statistics alone.
  — Cindy Gordon, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2021
• This approach lowers costs, accelerates delivery, and — by integrating superior technology on these platforms at scale — ensures that America has both the fleet size and the industrial depth needed to respond to a crisis.
  — Big Think, 28 Oct. 2025

fleet

3 of 3 verb

• Because these good times are fleeting, and that plate of food is getting cold.
  — Laura Neilson, Vogue, 11 Sep. 2017
• There's always a sense too that this magical world is fleeting as the miles tick by.
  — Katie Walsh, chicagotribune.com, 18 May 2017
• Those ooh-look-at-me cookies are an easy pleasure, a hard sugar high fast and fleeting.
  — Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2019
• But amid the mess, there were gems -- fleeting moments where the weird-but-good ratio landed just right.
  — Tatiana Cirisano, Billboard, 23 Aug. 2019
• Though the show was fleeting, her bold look was certainly one to be remembered.
  — Rachel Hahn, Vogue, 30 Jan. 2018
• The winds that cleared much of that haze Thursday and Friday were fleeting.
  — Matt Day, The Seattle Times, 27 Aug. 2018
• Even three years later, in the area where his truck was recovered, phone service is fleeting.
  — Jason Pohl, azcentral, 12 Jan. 2018
• Some regions have gained from climate change, but even those advantages may be fleeting.
  — Dave McIntyre, Washington Post, 8 Nov. 2019
• But such opportunities could be fleeting for many in the field.
  — Steve Peoples, The Denver Post, 16 July 2019
• Until that moment fleeted away.
  — Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 18 Mar. 2026
• 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
• And a lucky glimpse of their bushy tail skimming over cactuses and creosote bushes is fleeting.
  — Alex Devoid, azcentral, 27 Mar. 2018
• Some of the sports in this nearly 100-year history have been fleeting.
  — Author: Tik Root, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Feb. 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
• Only a great actor can evoke such transformations with so fleet a gesture, and so little fuss.
  — Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2025
• 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 such moments are fleeting and this Ado offers too much joy to worry about vexing questions.
  — Allison Adato, EW.com, 12 June 2019
• Your observations of a new road, a higher fence, a longer commute might hit your gut, but are most likely fleeting.
  — Bruce Finley, The Denver Post, 6 Aug. 2019
• That was a welcome, hopeful sign, but a fleeting one, erased by angry tweets and extreme appointments.
  — Ruth Marcus, The Denver Post, 23 Jan. 2017
• Any clouds are fleeting as highs rise to the mid-70s, with some upper 70s intermixed.
  — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 20 Oct. 2017
• Your face in the cloud Means privacy is fleetingTime to get offline?
  — Ellen McGirt, Fortune, 19 July 2019
• Flowers are fleeting, so Grubb prefers plants like acacia and cotinus for their foliage.
  — Martha Stewart, star-telegram.com, 15 June 2017
• Remembrance of those Washington woes quickly fleeted as the game wore on.
  — Tyler Horka, SI.com, 2 June 2018
• 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
• Some of the yellow cardinals have been observed over several months, while some of the sightings have been fleeting.
  — Dennis Pillion | [email protected], al, 15 Oct. 2019
• The good times were fleeting since Alabama intercepted four passes in the game.
  — Michael Casagrande | [email protected], al, 24 Nov. 2019
• Nikola’s business model is based on long-term leases of its trucks to fleet operators that include fuel as part of the prices.
  — Alan Ohnsman, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2021
• Despite fleeting screen time, Laura and Bob played prominently into the episode.
  — Nathan Paige, cleveland.com, 26 June 2017
• Shopping for Mother’s Day gifts can be easy, but the gift’s impact is e memories are often fleeting.
  — Steve Waters, Sun-Sentinel.com, 4 May 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