How to Use flotilla in a Sentence

flotilla

noun

• To count the swans, the flotilla of skiffs row up the Thames for five days.
  — The New York Times Elaine Chen Emily Anthes, New York Times, 18 May 2023
• The Navy did not say how close the flotilla was to Taiwan.
  — Eric Cheung, CNN, 23 Jan. 2022
• Collins put out the planer boards, and flotilla of Jet Divers towing a school of small spoons.
  — cleveland, 17 June 2021
• Imagine a flotilla of spacecraft going to and from the Moon.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 3 May 2024
• The safety divers move King’s stick-figure form to the flotilla and punch an oxygen mask to his face.
  — James Nestor, Outside Online, 25 Jan. 2012
• Helmer is one of many islanders who now rent out rooms on their flotilla through Airbnb.
  — Tim Brinkhof, Discover Magazine, 12 Nov. 2023
• Food came in by sea as a flotilla defied the shelling to bring necessities to the city.
  — Elise Patkotak, Alaska Dispatch News, 25 Oct. 2017
• There was the flotilla of Ferraris and Bugattis and Maseratis.
  — Casey Michel, Rolling Stone, 8 Oct. 2021
• Beyond that, there’s a flotilla that skims stray fuel and oil.
  — Andrew Lawrence, Car and Driver, 19 July 2021
• Nearby, a frothy bend in the river hosted a flotilla of teal blue rafts, our transport for the week.
  — Lauren Mowery, Forbes, 5 July 2022
• The country can’t address this dark moment with a flotilla of ships.
  — Andrew Morris-Singer and Brian Souza, STAT, 9 May 2022
• Again, the activists responded, this time with a flotilla of boats blocking the blast zone.
  — Clarissa Dawes, National Geographic, 11 Oct. 2020
• Fans will be in the park, but the team has asked for a flotilla of fans to assemble on boats, paddleboards and kayaks on the water.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 21 July 2021
• Toward the end of the run, a flotilla of rafts had put in and paddlers waited in line to jump 20 feet from a shelf of rock into the water.
  — Patrick Scott, WSJ, 3 Apr. 2018
• They were preceded by the flotilla of Trump children, who took their places at the front of the audience.
  — Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 4 Nov. 2020
• The parade of nations will be a 162-boat flotilla on the Seine River, with spectators able to watch from the banks for free.
  — Evan Hilbert, USA TODAY, 2 Feb. 2022
• Unencumbered by the looming threat of the US Navy, the crew of the Rezkiy and other ships of the flotilla indulged in bouts of recreation.
  — Elliot Ackerman, Wired, 2 Mar. 2021
• The river doesn’t need to be an attraction for a flotilla of plastic boats.
  — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 5 June 2019
• Boats the size of the Magestic must moor more than one hundred yards out, as a flotilla of dinghies, rowed from the stern with a single oar, ferry goods to the dock.
  — Rowan Moore Gerety, Harper's magazine, 10 June 2019
• Instead, organizers are planning to parade a flotilla of boats down the Seine that runs through the heart of the city.
  — Chad De Guzman, TIME, 13 June 2024
• The small flotilla of tourist boats is about 23 kilometers (14 miles) offshore.
  — Time, 3 June 2020
• The concept of a flotilla of British civilian boats rolling in to save the day was initially seen as a futile gesture.
  — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 5 May 2017
• In response, the U.S. Navy deployed warships and aircraft to track the Russian naval flotilla.
  — Alexandra Glorioso, Miami Herald, 14 June 2024
• That is not because this luckless flotilla poses a threat to Britain; rather that the Channel is the world’s busiest shipping lane.
  — The Economist, 15 Aug. 2020
• The tule reed craft will be accompanied on the bay crossing by a small flotilla of modern boats, in case a rescue is in the cards.
  — Steve Rubenstein, SFChronicle.com, 13 Oct. 2019
• For the first commando raid, Borghese had bought a flotilla of jet skis to transport 20 men to a Russian base on Cape Tarkhankut.
  — Oleksandr Chubko, New York Times, 22 Oct. 2023
• Still bereft of propulsion, the ship was converted into a coal barge, a supply ship for a doomed flotilla.
  — David Reamer | Alaska History, Anchorage Daily News, 25 June 2023
• Flotillas of county marine deputies and Coast Guard sailors will escort them.
  — Bill Monroe, OregonLive.com, 2 June 2017
• The Navy last week sortied, from San Diego, a flotilla of manned and unmanned surface vessels and submarines.
  — David Axe, Forbes, 28 Apr. 2021
• And on the water recently, a flotilla was taking shape.
  — New York Times, 14 June 2022

Last Updated: 25 Sep 2024