frigate
Example Sentences
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And the Royal Navy can muster only a handful of frigates, destroyers and nuclear submarines.
The US military now has 13 warships stationed in the Middle East: the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln, which arrived late last month, nine destroyers and three frigates.
From Barron's
It has increased sea patrols by frigates, tightened rules for foreigners and talked of launching exploration of the surrounding sea bed, which holds deposits of precious rare earths in demand by modern industry.
They have teamed up to build tanks, frigates and missiles.
Sometimes for a whole day they talked in sea lion grunts or frigate bird squawks or plankton wiggles.
From Literature
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
