How to Use armada in a Sentence

armada

noun

• Over the coming weeks, the armada raked an area of seafloor equal to the size of Boston.
  — Laura Trethewey, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Sep. 2023
• 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
• Of course, all that will change when Quaritch and his armada track down their prey.
  — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Dec. 2022
• An armada of Landing Ship Tanks circled, waiting to take the troops to the beach.
  — oregonlive, 10 Nov. 2019
• The trailer suggests the episode will be epic in scale with armies and armadas assembling.
  — Hal Boedeker, OrlandoSentinel.com, 22 Aug. 2017
• 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
• 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
• Murphy, as usual, has an armada of other projects still in the works.
  — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 4 Jan. 2021
• The system has hidden from view a big part of the armada of cargo ships waiting to unload.
  — Paul Berger, WSJ, 10 Dec. 2021
• 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
• An armada of spacecraft keep a constant watch on the Red Planet.
  — Eric Betz, Discover Magazine, 18 Mar. 2016
• Their last matchup dated to 1997, and the tide has now turned in favor of the French league champions and their armada of world-class players.
  — Fox News, 6 Sep. 2022
• 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
• The formidable Russian tank armada spent much of the last month idling on the highways.
  — Vikram Mittal, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2022
• 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
• While the rest of Shakhtar’s armada of foreign talent found new clubs — some back home in Brazil, others in Europe — Traoré took his time.
  — Tariq Panja, New York Times, 14 May 2023
• Music filled the air and the sounds of horns rose from an armada of more than 1,000 boats that came to welcome the Belem under blue skies in the calm, glittering harbor.
  — Ségolène Le Stradic, New York Times, 8 May 2024
• 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
• Here’s just one: Trump boasted in April 2017 that an armada was headed to North Korea.
  — Alex Ward, Vox, 12 Dec. 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
• Instead, the finale just skipped forward to this epic armada shot.
  — Joanna Robinson, HWD, 19 July 2017
• 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
• Almost from the start of the expedition, the armada faced stormy weather.
  — Roger Knight, Foreign Affairs, 28 Feb. 2023
• But in 1853, the country was forced to come out of seclusion, with an American armada sitting at the mouth of what is today Tokyo Bay.
  — New York Times, 3 Mar. 2022
• 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
• The fleet problem is one part of a process that could end with the U.S. fleet sailing into battle behind a deadly armada of stealthy drones.
  — David Axe, Forbes, 28 Apr. 2021
• The streets of Beijing still show progress; armadas of electric cars glide by like props in a sci-fi film, and the smoke that used to impose a perpetual twilight is gone.
  — Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2023
• After that, China's navy — which now rivals the U.S.'s in strength — would send an armada across the strait to mount a huge amphibious assault.
  — The Week Staff, The Week, 4 Dec. 2022
• To counter this armada, the U.S. had only Callaghan’s task force, with two heavy cruisers, three light cruisers and eight destroyers.
  — Gary Kamiya, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 May 2018
• Iran’s recent attack on Israel via drone armada proved to be a massive flop.
  — Zack Beauchamp, Vox, 20 Nov. 2018

Last Updated: 18 Sep 2024