How to Use admiralty in a Sentence

admiralty

noun
  • The prince, tanned from the couple’s Mexican sojourn, was wearing his dark blue admiralty uniform and sword.
    — sandiegouniontribune.com, 26 Feb. 2018
  • Endurance Exploration owns the wreck site, having filed an admiralty claim in federal court.
    — Mark Price, charlotteobserver, 9 May 2018
  • The admiralty had been at the greatest pains to guard the Lusitania and other big liners, in the belief that they would be needed as transports.
    — sandiegouniontribune.com, 7 May 2018
  • That was the conclusion that Winston Churchill, the first lord of the admiralty, came to in 1911.
    — Daniel Yergin, The Atlantic, 15 Dec. 2020
  • Salvors then began to sue Florida, citing Fisher and admiralty rights.
    — Chad Lewis, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Jan. 2020
  • Jones met admiralty lawyers who flew in from San Francisco to represent the marine insurers, sparking his interest in law.
    — oregonlive, 3 Oct. 2022
  • By 1776, the word carried a decade of argument over consent, customs duties, officers, admiralty courts, and judicial salaries.
    — Joseph Thorndike, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026
  • Federal charges were dismissed against the three in December 2020 after a judge ruled that the lake wasn’t subject to admiralty law and suggested that the criminal case be brought under state law.
    — Joe Barrett, WSJ, 16 July 2021
  • Among others, scientist John Graham Kerr claimed credit and later challenged Wilkinson in Admiralty court.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, 5 May 2026
  • Under United States admiralty law, criminal charges like the ones filed against the three men only apply in federal court if the waterway upon which the crime is alleged to have happened is deemed navigable.
    — Arkansas Online, 17 July 2021
  • The Supreme Court has traditionally affirmed expansive civil forfeiture rules by reference to colonial practices rooted in admiralty, piracy, and customs law.
    — David French, National Review, 20 July 2017
  • In 1905, just eight years after the Turbinia’s public debut, the British admiralty decided all future Royal Navy vessels should be turbine powered.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 31 May 2019
  • Access to oil has been a preoccupation of military planners and world leaders since 1914, when Winston Churchill, as first lord of the admiralty, converted the British naval fleet from coal.
    — Walter Russell Mead, WSJ, 29 Apr. 2020

Some of these examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'admiralty.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.

Last Updated: