frigate
Example Sentences
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“We know this frigate design works, we know it operates with the fleet, and most importantly, we know how to build it, now,” he said.
In February of 1781, a British frigate captured the Zorg off Africa’s Windward Coast and brought it farther east to Cape Coast Castle.
The boat crews try to slip past or outrun whatever Colombia and the U.S. put in front of them: coastal patrol boats to frigates and helicopters farther out.
Past work on the Constellation-class frigates has exposed how much the U.S. lags behind other countries’ shipbuilding capacity.
The company -- the leading shipbuilder for the Dutch navy -- employs some 12,500 people and owns several shipyards across the world, constructing notably frigates, combat support vessels and maritime patrol ships.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
