How to Use armada in a Sentence

armada

noun
  • Of course, all that will change when Quaritch and his armada track down their prey.
    — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Dec. 2022
  • Corlys has his own armada sailing for Rhaenyra.
    — Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 20 June 2026
  • The trailer suggests the episode will be epic in scale with armies and armadas assembling.
    — Hal Boedeker, OrlandoSentinel.com, 22 Aug. 2017
  • Murphy, as usual, has an armada of other projects still in the works.
    — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 4 Jan. 2021
  • Over the coming weeks, the armada raked an area of seafloor equal to the size of Boston.
    — Laura Trethewey, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Sep. 2023
  • Instead, the finale just skipped forward to this epic armada shot.
    — Joanna Robinson, HWD, 19 July 2017
  • Far from the shady pines along the lake’s edge, the small armada pulled the pontoon toward the middle of the lake.
    — Dino Grandoni, Washington Post, 1 July 2024
  • But as with the armada, the weather was the main killer; storms battered ships and often drove them onto rocks.
    — Roger Knight, Foreign Affairs, 28 Feb. 2023
  • The system has hidden from view a big part of the armada of cargo ships waiting to unload.
    — Paul Berger, WSJ, 10 Dec. 2021
  • The goal of this unarmed armada was nothing less than reclaiming the small river.
    — New York Times, 21 June 2021
  • An armada of spacecraft keep a constant watch on the Red Planet.
    — Eric Betz, Discover Magazine, 18 Mar. 2016
  • Then Carl lost one at the boat and suddenly nets were flashing for half dozen lucky anglers at a time in the armada around us.
    — Bill Monroe, oregonlive, 29 Aug. 2020
  • The joy of being in the friendliest of armadas certainly was infectious.
    — Elisabeth Vincentelli, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2025
  • Almost from the start of the expedition, the armada faced stormy weather.
    — Roger Knight, Foreign Affairs, 28 Feb. 2023
  • That briefest of teaser shots launched an armada of memes, and one of the most impressive responses mixes that porg peal.
    — Michael Cavna, kansascity, 12 Oct. 2017
  • The formidable Russian tank armada spent much of the last month idling on the highways.
    — Vikram Mittal, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2022
  • An armada of Landing Ship Tanks circled, waiting to take the troops to the beach.
    — oregonlive, 10 Nov. 2019
  • The report was the latest in an armada of red flags flying over the country's troubled fiscal outlook.
    — Tory Newmyer, Washington Post, 12 Apr. 2018
  • The morning of the swim, an armada of boats congregated alongside a string of pennant flags hung across the channel — the pony swim lane.
    — Sarah Maslin Nir, New York Times, 8 July 2019
  • New bombers rolled off the city’s assembly lines, and new armadas floated out of its shipyards, toward the Pacific front.
    — Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 11 Jan. 2025
  • The soup also stands up to the bold flavors of the banchan, which arrive in a Trojan armada of pickled delights.
    — Linda Zavoral, The Mercury News, 15 Jan. 2024
  • As for the armadas of private water tankers, Vishwanath actually sees a place for them in his vision of the future.
    — Samanth Subramanian, WIRED, 2 May 2017
  • The armada was to find a westward route to the Moluccas, or the Spice Islands, and return the same way.
    — National Geographic, 11 Aug. 2022
  • The hope is that splitting the armada in two will divide and confuse the Luftwaffe squadrons scrambled to intercept them.
    — Chris Klimek, Vulture, 2 Feb. 2024
  • The Navy has a powerful armada on station in the widening Mideast conflict.
    — Charles Selle, Chicago Tribune, 4 Mar. 2026
  • News of the outcome spread across Europe, and many learned that the armada had, as expected, won the day and crushed the English fleet.
    — Renee Diresta, Wired, 26 Mar. 2021
  • The prospect of fire and fury, destruction like the world had never seen, and armadas steaming toward North Korea all set the world on edge.
    — Jon Wolfsthal, The New Republic, 21 Apr. 2018
  • More friends file in, and soon the drawing room looks fit to burst with their hopes and secrets, hanging before us like the armada of art on Fefu’s bright-green wall.
    — The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2019
  • Yet keeping the Spanish armada at bay to claim the point that would boost hopes of qualifying for the last 16 looks a tall order.
    — Justin Davis, chicagotribune.com, 19 June 2018
  • The one constant during that time has been the armada of support from the stands, and fans like Cignetti, who traveled from Córdoba.
    — Tariq Panja, New York Times, 22 June 2018

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