How to Use naval in a Sentence

naval

adjective

• 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
• 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
• France opened a major overseas naval base in Abu Dhabi.
  — Isabel Debre, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 May 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Taiwanese soldiers at a naval base in Taoyuan on Friday.
  — Jennifer Jett, NBC News, 22 Oct. 2024
• For the next forty-two days, federal agents and four hundred sailors from Meridian’s naval base searched for the three men.
  — Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 2 Oct. 2023
• The strapping 18-year-old heir to the Greek thrown also was tendered a luncheon and stag dinner by naval officers in the course of the day.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Jan. 2023
• China has one small naval base (at Djibouti) in the Indian Ocean.
  — Anatol Lieven, Time, 8 Nov. 2022
• The ship was part of an effort at the turn of the century to enhance American naval power.
  — Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 6 Dec. 2024
• Philip's naval career took the newlyweds to Malta in 1949.
  — Jessica Sager, Peoplemag, 16 Sep. 2022
• The agreement will grant the U.S. access to three bases on mainland Greece along with its long-standing naval presence on the island of Crete.
  — Caitlin McFall, Fox News, 31 May 2022
• The disclosure about the cameras is the latest twist in a cat-and-mouse game between Iranian and U.S. naval forces this week.
  — Michael R. Gordon, WSJ, 2 Sep. 2022
• Could Russia move to annex it fully, thus securing a new naval base on the Black Sea?
  — Thomas De Waal, Foreign Affairs, 3 June 2024
• More than 20 Russian naval vessels have now been disabled or destroyed, a third of the entire fleet.
  — Radina Gigova, CNN, 3 Aug. 2024
• As well as being head of the armed forces, her father, George VI served as a naval officer, as did her husband, the late prince Philip.
  — Patrick Smith, NBC News, 19 Sep. 2022
• Last month, China sent nearly 90 naval and coast guard vessels into waters in the area, its largest such operation in almost three decades.
  — Meaghan Tobin, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 28 Jan 2025