How to Use frigate in a Sentence

frigate

noun

• In 1816, the French naval frigate Medusa ran aground off the coast of West Africa.
  — Manuel Mendoza, Dallas News, 10 Mar. 2023
• The next year, the frigate Samuel B. Roberts struck a mine and nearly sank.
  — Helene Cooper, New York Times, 28 June 2019
• The bill includes money for the first frigate but none for the LCS.
  — al, 18 Dec. 2019
• The last of the tired frigates will likely serve until 2040.
  — Eric Tegler, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
• Can’t the Book Review find a few more frigates out there?
  — New York Times, 4 Oct. 2019
• The video shows two anti-ship missiles striking the frigate, both in the stern.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 26 Apr. 2018
• The French frigate Aquitaine has also been reported off the coast of Lebanon.
  — Kate Samuelson, Time, 13 Apr. 2018
• At the moment, Germany has working frigates, but the U.S. does not.
  — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 June 2024
• Don’t give up the ship’’ during a losing battle with the British frigate Shannon in the War of 1812.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 31 May 2018
• In 1794, the year it was established, the United States Navy was equipped with just six frigates.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 11 Dec. 2019
• The frigate Hetman Sahaydachniy, the pride of Ukraine’s navy, takes the first potshots.
  — The Economist, 9 Aug. 2019
• Challenged by a French naval frigate, the warships went to battle alert.
  — Steven Erlanger, New York Times, 3 Aug. 2020
• Denmark is sending fighter jets to Lithuania and a frigate to the Baltic Sea.
  — New York Times, 25 Jan. 2022
• The flagship frigate, adorned with the Russian and Cuban flags, was greeted by a 21-cannon salute.
  — Regina Garcia Cano, arkansasonline.com, 13 June 2024
• The Navy planned to make up the difference with 20 more capable frigates.
  — Sean Gallagher, Ars Technica, 20 Feb. 2018
• The shipyard is also competing to build a new class of frigates.
  — David Sharp, The Seattle Times, 21 Jan. 2018
• The Spanish frigate Méndez Núñez also aided in the search.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 July 2019
• The Navy has decided to put off until fiscal year 2020 its award of a contract for the frigate.
  — Anthony Capaccio, Bloomberg.com, 3 May 2017
• The deal includes an option for the acquisition of a fourth frigate.
  — Sylvie Corbet, ajc, 28 Sep. 2021
• What would a Perry-class frigate returned to service look like?
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 14 June 2017
• On Tuesday, in the seas outside Suao naval port, a missile launched from a navy frigate left a trail of smoke in the sky as depth charges threw up spray.
  — Pei Lin Wu, Washington Post, 27 July 2022
• Up to 20 frigates are expected to be built, some of which will be homeported in San Diego.
  — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 June 2024
• The contract, announced last week, is for the design and construction of the lead frigate, with an option to buy nine more.
  — Jamie McIntyre, Washington Examiner, 5 May 2020
• But since the seizure of Crimea Russia has put the fleet on steroids, adding half a dozen new submarines, three frigates and a slew of missile-toting boats.
  — The Economist, 9 Aug. 2019
• Without the protection of a frigate, the Raptors were sitting ducks.
  — David Axe, Forbes, 6 May 2022
• And in December that year, the frigate Talayieh rolled over in a dry dock in Bandar Abbas.
  — David Faris, Newsweek, 10 July 2024
• Tehran is reported to have 33 subs (Israel, 6), and five frigates (Israel is said to have none).
  — Greg Norman, Fox News, 10 May 2018
• That depicts a calamity of three years earlier, when the Méduse , a French naval frigate, ran aground off the West African coast.
  — The Economist, 22 Mar. 2018
• Did a storm disturb a pirate treasure chest or break open up a sunken colonial frigate?
  — New York Times, 12 Dec. 2020
• In addition to the Moskva, Ukrainian missiles and drones have destroyed or severely damaged two frigates, five tank landing ships, and a submarine.
  — Mark Cancian, Foreign Affairs, 8 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Nov 2024