How to Use naval in a Sentence

naval

adjective

• Crowds at the naval port of Portsmouth threw roses at the sailors.
  — Simon Usborne, Town & Country, 13 Mar. 2022
• The guardrails should reach or exceed the height of the child’s naval during use.
  — Samson McDougall, Parents, 5 Oct. 2024
• Divers and unmanned naval vessels pulled up the rest from the bottom of the ocean.
  — Arkansas Online, 18 Feb. 2023
• The once-proud Navy hospital was built to serve a naval base that shut down in the 1990s.
  — Joe Rubin, The New Republic, 17 Sep. 2021
• China already has a naval base on the coast of East Africa.
  — Washington Post, 17 Sep. 2021
• That led to the terns trying to nest on a boat dock by the naval station That gave Semel an idea.
  — Sheryl Devore, chicagotribune.com, 19 July 2021
• He was born in Pomona, Calif., and is a naval aviator and test pilot.
  — Lee Roop | [e-mail], al, 4 Apr. 2023
• At the same time, Ukraine has attacked Russian naval vessels in the Black Sea as well as in port.
  — Eric Schmitt, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2023
• Its fleet isn't large enough to meet global day-to-day demands for naval forces.
  — Joel Mathis, The Week, 18 Apr. 2022
• They were taken to a naval base in the Philippines and flown to Guam for processing.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 16 Sep. 2021
• France opened a major overseas naval base in Abu Dhabi.
  — Isabel Debre, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 May 2022
• As one of the littoral states on the Black Sea, Russia can claim the movement of ships through the area is to return to their home naval base.
  — NBC News, 19 Mar. 2022
• Luria’s district includes Norfolk, site of the world’s largest naval base.
  — Doyle McManuswashington Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 3 Apr. 2022
• Russian troops seized Crimea from Ukraine in 2014 and began using it as a naval base.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 2 May 2022
• Prince Philip kept a reminder of his naval career in his office.
  — Victoria Murphy, Town & Country, 14 Nov. 2022
• The slinky was a surefire way to secure naval instruments in rough seas.
  — Charlie Eccleshare, The Athletic, 26 Dec. 2024
• The 11 naval officers behind the plot hoped that also killing Chaplin would start a war with the U.S.
  — Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Jan. 2022
• And a convoy, for example, in the north passed the inspection and then was hit by a naval missile.
  — CBS News, 17 Mar. 2024
• The distance from naval ports on the Chinese mainland to the Taiwanese capital of Taipei is 141 miles.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 13 July 2023
• The Flare The flare jean has taken on many personas over the years, from buttoned, naval garb to the bohemian bell bottoms of the ’70s.
  — Kristina Rutkowski, Vogue, 24 Sep. 2024
• The courtroom here at the Guantanamo naval base is where the costs of our overreactions have come due.
  — Terry McDermott, Los Angeles Times, 10 Sep. 2021
• Well, San Diego being a port city and having a naval presence, that was kind of always in the background here.
  — Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Mar. 2023
• The test was launched in the Sinpo area, a central coastal region that is home to a North Korean naval base.
  — Timothy W. Martin, WSJ, 19 Oct. 2021
• My father—a naval officer—used to say that the length of a woman’s hair should be in proportion to the width of her hips.
  — Kathleen Baird-Murray, Glamour, 2 Mar. 2023
• Flags are also at half-mast on all naval stations and vessels.
  — Haadiza Ogwude, The Enquirer, 1 Jan. 2025
• The port has a naval base, shipbuilding yards and an oil terminal, and is key for exports.
  — Hanna Arhirova, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Aug. 2023
• Brown was also the first Black naval officer to die in the Korean War.
  — Odie Henderson, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Nov. 2022
• Sometimes, staff from the naval base will call in lunch orders and pick them up via helicopter.
  — Washington Post, 20 Dec. 2021
• Back in 1969, naval researchers took blood samples from the crew of a Polaris nuclear submarine over the course of an eight-week patrol.
  — Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 2 June 2025
• The 5,000-ton destroyer is the country’s newest warship and was meant to be a triumph of North Korea’s ambitious naval modernization effort.
  — Brad Lendon, CNN Money, 6 June 2025