navy

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Recent Examples of navy The British navy had destroyed the first attempt to print the most important early English poem. Literary Hub, 10 Oct. 2025 The French fashion house’s new ads, which break in print on Thursday, show Stone and fellow brand ambassador Hoyeon touting the Capucines and Side Trunk bags in fall-friendly colors ranging from cognac to deep navy and taupe. Joelle Diderich, Footwear News, 9 Oct. 2025 Available in black, navy, and vintage burgundy, all of which are on sale for 50 percent off for a limited time. Melony Forcier, Travel + Leisure, 8 Oct. 2025 Nina Dobrev looks chic in a navy number for the Miu Miu show during Paris Fashion Week on Oct. 6. Courtney B. Vance makes an appearance on an Oct. 6 episode of The Jennifer Hudson Show in Burbank, California. Toria Sheffield, PEOPLE, 7 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for navy
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Noun
  • The event was commemorated in style, with a flotilla of yachts in the Arabian Sea, starting out from the historic monument, the Gateway of India.
    Mayu Saini, Footwear News, 17 Oct. 2025
  • The moves follow a Chinese naval flotilla's recent voyage around nearly all of Japan's territory in less than a month.
    Ryan Chan, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Calderhead focuses on the British tactic, enacted two days after the initial attack, of moving their fleet into Flushing Bay to anchor for the night.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 18 Oct. 2025
  • The successful trial marks the first time a naval variant of the IRIS-T family missile has been launched at sea, paving the way for serial introduction across the fleet.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 17 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Producer and colleague Monika Evstatieva and I were in that convoy, took small arms fire, but were unharmed.
    Tom Bowman, NPR, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Live video showed a convoy of five Red Cross vehicles carrying the remaining hostages leaving Khan Younis in southern Gaza, to the cheers of onlookers and surrounded by Hamas officers.
    Yamiche Alcindor, NBC news, 14 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Dusk has just destroyed the political center of the Empire in the Galactic Council, the seat of the largest religion in the Empire, and also the entirety of Cloud Dominion, which had a massive armada and significant political influence.
    Rafael Motamayor, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Joining him for the indie-pop odyssey is an armada of guests: Lorde, Caroline Polachek, Daniel Caesar, Mustafa, Turnstile’s Brendan Yates, Ian Isiah, Tirzah, Amandla Stenberg, and Zadie Smith, among others.
    Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 29 Aug. 2025

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“Navy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/navy. Accessed 23 Oct. 2025.

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