How to Use naval in a Sentence
naval
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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 | Lroop@al.com, 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 -
Prince Philip kept a reminder of his naval career in his office.
— Victoria Murphy, Town & Country, 14 Nov. 2022 -
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 -
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 -
Philip's naval career took the newlyweds to Malta in 1949.
— Jessica Sager, Peoplemag, 16 Sep. 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 -
Ukraine used maritime drones to attack the Russian naval fleet in October.
— Steven Erlanger, New York Times, 8 Aug. 2023 -
The countries have also discussed building a naval base on the Red Sea, one of the world’s most strategic waterways.
— Stephen Kalin, WSJ, 8 Nov. 2022 -
By then the princess had become close to Timothy Laurence, a naval commander and equerry to the queen.
— Simon Usborne, Town & Country, 18 Jan. 2023 -
Their sinking is considered one of the worst naval disasters in the history of the Royal Navy.
— Brad Lendon, CNN, 30 May 2023 -
Fast and Bulbous Another part of the post shows what is known in naval architecture as the bulbous bow.
— Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 14 Aug. 2023 -
On the other side of the island, a Russian naval vessel arrived at Havana's port on Tuesday.
— Matt Seyler, ABC News, 12 July 2023 -
Israel has also maintained an air and naval blockade on Gaza.
— Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN, 11 Oct. 2023 -
Lam and his fellow Chinese naval officers supported the Allied troops on the beaches from one of the British ships off the French coast.
— Peter Guo, NBC News, 29 Oct. 2024 -
That said, one thing that had to be considered was Scott’s desire to stage a battle in the Colosseum, which would be filled with water for the sequence that involves a full-on naval battle in the arena, complete with man-eating sharks.
— Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 22 Nov. 2024
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