How To Use Armada In A Sentence

It clearly showed the vast armada of the invasion fleet standing just off the coast of Normandy.
And now, you've killed one of the highest ranking officers in his entire armada!
Each man was surrounded by an absolute armada of percussion: Bongos, congas, sambas and tom toms; high-hats, kettles, timpani and snares.
Compared to the size of the vessels in the enemy armada, these battleships were mere toys.
Therefore, the whole armada would be spear headed by a flotilla of 287 mine sweepers that would clear the way for the ships behind them.

Elizabeth's dress, of white and gold brocade, is much less elaborate than the ‘Armada’ costume, and the head-dress is comparatively unassuming.
According to the team manager Arjun Dharmadasa, the Lankan team is billed to play Japan on Dec.18.
Between 1621 and 1623, three new armadas were established in Flanders, Galicia and Gibraltar to support those in Cadiz and Lisbon.
The destruction of the Spanish Armada showed England's superiority as a naval power.
'Norman Conquest,' Froude's 'Armada,' or Napier's 'Peninsular War.' The Book-Hunter at Home
Fleets of aircraft, armadas of ships, armies of soldiers came across the English Channel and struck the German defenses.
They had marshalled an armada of 1000 boats and a squadron of 70 aircraft to help clear up the oil.
The Gloria moved into position among the other redemption class ships, or gunboats based on the original design of the man-o-war of the British Armada.
For more than a hour, the procession made its way through the armada, before returning to Spithead.
I found the snowblowers lined up like an armada of fighter planes.
In May 1588, the armada left Lisbon and traveled up the coast toward England.
The Martian armada is headed for Earth – and Invincible is the only thing that stands in their way! Image Comics for December 2006 | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News
You are a sailor in the service of King Philip II of Spain, and your country is about to send "la felicissima armada" (Spanish for "the most fortunate fleet") to invade England, your enemy.
As we reached the middle of the sound opposite Armadale, there fell a dead calm; and the Betsey, more actively idle than the ship manned by the Ancient Mariner, dropped sternwards along the tide, to the dull music of the flapping sail. The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland
A year later, secure in the north, Gloriana's licensed pirates in their gun-crammed galleons, aided by a storm, saw off the Spanish Armada.
But this is an army of rookies, clods, and dimwits - and the women make short work of their glorious space armada.
This time around – and I think we're on the 22nd remake now – they've steampunked it, gussying it up with much retro-futuristic silliness and cheap-looking CGI, anachronistic weaponry and ordnance, by-the-numbers action-heroics, and a sky teeming with armadas of heavily armoured hot-air balloons reminiscent of Zeppelins. This steampunk take on The Three Musketeers doesn't buckle my swash
Pitta enjoyed initial success, his modest fleet savaging Grunger's armada amidst a devastating fusillade of proton torpedoes.
Very high in protein, beestings is used in Spain for the production of Armada, a strong, semi-firm cheese.
To call what this aerial armada did a ‘war’, as distinct from unchallenged slaughter, is to debauch language.
Of course, the honours of the defeat of the Armada must always be shared with other naval experts who had acquired their knowledge of sea warfare in what is called the piratical line. Drake Nelson and Napoleon
There were whole armadas of different ships, space stations and planets, no end to the add-ons for your craft and every mission was different.
The superior firepower provided by bronze cannonry proved crucial in the English navy's victory in 1588 over the much larger Spanish Armada.
The fisherfolk there know that, which is why they did not mount an armada and head for Tobago after her dotish talk.
In July and August of that year, the monsoon waters rose in the Narmada and submerged villages.
The latest in the occasional Another Late Night series raids the record collection of icebox studio duo Groove Armada.
Among its chief defenses will be an armada of navy ships.
Successive Spanish armadas against the Protestant English and Dutch, including major efforts in 1588 and 1639, failed because the attackers were unable to win command of the sea.
The first bearer of the name Reynolds came to our shores with the Spanish Armada and the galleon on which he travelled was wrecked on the North coast of Sligo.
The city of steel was the flagship of the Battle Group, surrounded by an armada of supporting ships including a half-dozen frigates and destroyers.
And then, at daybreak also, choppers and fixed-wing aircraft were out here, an armada of them, dumping thousands upon thousands of gallons of water on the hot spots and on the flames.
O Bharata, there flows in a westward course the sacred river Narmada, graced by _Priyangu_ and mango trees, and engarlanded with thickest of canes. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Vana Parva, Part 1
A small convoy of Talons had disembarked from the host of the armada and was cutting through the waves at near breakneck speeds.
These lingams come only from the Narmada River, high in the mountains of Mandhata, one of the 7 sacred holy places of pilgrimage in India.
Here's me with a serious piece of Spanish Armada cannonry pulled out of Kinnagoe by the Derry Divers’ Club.
Arrgh wvng - the bonnie (fer Stuart) thing be, a great armada o 'folks weren't bein' fine wi 'tha' - an 'tha's why she be returnin t' th 'frozen tundra where she be belongin'! Transition: How Obama is Building a Government - Swampland - TIME.com
This is no hard-and-fast rule, but: Isn't that the phrase extraterrestrial armadas always use--right before they blast the puny humans to kingdom come? Faces Of The Week: Jan 16-20 Forbes Faces Of The Week: Jan 16-20
The next morning, before going to the airport, we drove to Wungong Gorge near Armadale and saw long-billed black cockatoos, western thornbills and western rosellas.
On its long Atlantic voyage, the armada made good progress with favourable winds filling the sails.
The difficulty arises from an apparent contradiction in terms; and that difficulty is as complete in the case of a headache which lasts for an hour as in the case of a pestilence which unpeoples an empire, -- in the case of the gust which makes us shiver for a moment as in the case of the hurricane in which an Armada is cast away. Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 2
By late 1967, the pirate armada had largely been swept from the seas. Radio Renegades
Drake, chased the "vincible" armada, as it was now termed, for some distance northward; and then, when they seemed to bend away from the The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 10
After all, the pieces move in chess; even nonplayers can observe an armada of chessmen marching down the 64 squares and realize that something is happening.
Pieces of stucco dangled from rebar and an armada of ambulances gathered behind police tape. Globe and Mail
Groove Armada, "Paper Romance" - A total stormer, and an unexpected one at that. 1st of July (But No Fireworks)
Standing before the main battle tridee on the bridge of the damaged but still very battle-worthy Tamerlane, he watched in silent satisfaction as the surviving stingships returned to their mothercraft and the main body of the armada advanced to within orbital bombardment range of both worlds. Dirge
On the left of the picture, meanwhile, English fireships set out towards the approaching Armada.
For the post-Soviet KGB, which still occupied the same armada of buildings in historic central Moscow, there were no more ideological nonconformists to persecute.
Don Francisco Colombo, who with an armada of twenty galleons sailed in January 1599 to protect Porto Rico from the English. The Founder of New France : A chronicle of Champlain
The Spanish Armada was sent by the king of Spain to invade England in 1588.
The steady southeasterlies requested of the young sorcerer had prevailed nicely enough while the Continentals sailed up from Nis-Gata, but the wind dropped away to nothing within an hour of the corsairs’ joining the armada. Conqueror's Moon
The running battle up the Channel was inconclusive, and only the English fireship attack on the Armada's anchorage off Calais broke the stalemate.
In the predawn gloom, an armada of longboards sat in the sand of Windansea beach, bristling like war ships with poles, tackle, and gear.
With the additional threat of armadas and independent looters, keeping the American riches flowing into Spain became a very complex problem.
He also fancies himself a playwright, and approaches the well-heeled Mr. Dangle (Darragh Kennan) and the waspish Mr. Sneer (Jonathan Smoots), a pair of opinionated connoisseurs, in the hopes of enlisting their support for his latest effort, a tragedy called "The Spanish Armada" that ranks alongside "The Most Lamentable Comedy and Most Cruel Death of Pyramus and Thisbe" as the worst play ever written. Those Who Cannot Do…
Even the most discrete of armadas might alter their plans and give hint to some clandestinity on our part.
These bosses are the greatest thing about this game: they range from gigantic armada battleship to big two-headed dragons!
The English drove in hard and close, pouring broadsides into the Armada, though they still could not break its formation.
Between the two establishments a whole armada of small boats bobbed about.
On its long Atlantic voyage, the armada made good progress with favourable winds filling the sails.
Main Street, Cooper Lane and Further Lane would all have to be kept clear of cars so that the armada of -vehicles could park. AMAGANSETT
The next year, the colonies got proof their fears were well grounded; France sent a great armada of 71 ships under the Duc D' Anville against them.
In the heyday of the Hapsburgs, Viennese noblemen, for want of other diversion, amused themselves by firing cannonballs into the annual armadas of migrating beluga sturgeon that swam up the Danube to spawn.
The modern connotation of "galleon" comes partly from the Armada, and partly from a later era, the 17th century, when a galleon was the Spanish equivalent of an Indiaman. Archaic terminology in historical fiction
Polluted waters, destroyed forests, unbreathable air, the tiger and the elephant going extinct, the drowning of the Narmada valley, a Chernobyl there, Bhopal here… as many examples as you may want to look for.
The destruction of the Spanish Armada showed England's superiority as a naval power.
So too the fiendish destruction of the public and private Hermes figures in Athens two years earlier, on the ill-omened eve of sailing of the Athenian armada for Sicily.
Farmers from as far as Jilingarra, Gidgegannup, Merredin and Armadale visited the farm to see a team of local shearers and the preparation of mohair for sale.
Slowly, ponderously this great armada moved across the Channel.
But Lord Vader," whinnied Admiral Ozzel, "the armada is already moving along a prescribed route ... Archive 2005-04-17
Twenty Armada ships were to founder on the Irish rocks.
Fleeing with other demoralized shreds of the Spanish Armada, the galley had sailed up the eastern coast of England, driven on ahead of the English fleet by gales and storms.
No doubt, it means that my armada is unparalleled in its planetary conquest experience. 365 tomorrows » 2006 » October : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
His first 11 months aboard the Alabama was in the European theatre, mostly in the North Sea, convoying British and Russian troop and supply ships against a German U-boat armada.
The ships were two of the 20-24 Spanish Armada ships that were wrecked off the Irish coastline out of a total fleet of 130 ships.
Instead of aerial armadas and huge tank fleets on the ground, the military response will also be low-key and downbeat but no less effective for having such a low profile.
The first great fleet in Spanish history was the famous armada of 1588, sent unsuccessfully to defeat England.
The Spanish Armada was sent to attack England in 1588.
France sent a massive sixty-four-vessel armada to Louisbourg, only to have it disrupted en route by storms, calms, and disease.
Other artists on display include Constable Michelangelo, Holbein and Rembrandt, as well as more contemporary artists; jewels rescued from a Spanish galleon of the Armada, and the last letter written by Mary.
Spanish Armada: Great fleet sent by Philip II of Spain in 1588 to invade England in conjunction with a Spanish army from Flanders.
There are always the parents who get on and drag along an armada of noisy and undomesticated children.
The Caliph sent several small armadas to defeat Dahar but these were all soundly defeated.
Careful there Floating Boobie you fundie dolt … the gay armada is on it’s way and this time they’re immune to your Gods pillars of salt. Think Progress » Puppet cleavage too hot for the religious right in Colorado Springs.
And on more than one occasion, a late winter storm had wiped out entire armadas of their felucca ships.
The president came to power with "unilateralist" tendencies but must now assemble the most complex diplomatic armada since the Allies in World War II. A President Finds His True Voice
It was a very active, prolific time for English history - Raleigh going off, armadas attacking, people turning up with potatoes and tobacco, great plays being written, plagues - all kinds of crazy stuff happening.
There were stories of the glorious Silver Armada being lost at sea, of the galleons loaded with silver and gold for the Empire's coffers having been sunk ignominiously, and of disastrous defeats on land.
And then she was helped back over the side of the boat, to the cheers of the ragtag armada all around them. Crystal Rain
The Armada was not only a religious crusade - though the people of Spain interpreted it as being so.
However, it was the Titanic disaster that sounded the death knell for his collapsible armada with the introduction, paradoxically, of strict new lifeboat regulations.
The Generall of them that came from Goa was Don Luis, and of those that came from Molucca Don Emanuell: who brought their Armada before Bantam, intending to surprize the citty, vnder pretence that the same preparation was made to resist certaine pirates that came thither out of Holland the last yeare, and were determined this yeare also to come againe. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
The European Union will today launch a British-led anti-piracy armada off the Horn of Africa in Europe's first joint naval operation.
Cada vez mais fartos da cegueira, incompetência, beligerância cega e pura estupidez da administração Bush, as altas patentes das forças armadas norte-americanas começam a questionar abertamente as decisões políticas relativas ao Iraque e à guerra contra o terrorismo. Leituras
Instead of aerial armadas and huge tank fleets on the ground, the military response will also be low-key and downbeat but no less effective for having such a low profile.
My maternal grandfather came from North Wales, and judging by the swarthy skins he bequeathed to his children, the Spaniards from the scattered Spanish Armada had some responsibility there.
Again, a very rare popular woodcut dates from after the Spanish Armada of 1588 when images of the Queen were used as emblems to rally national pride.
The largest seaborn invasion armada ever in history, resulted on this day, 60 years ago, in turning the tide, beginning the turn of the tide. CNN Transcript Jun 6, 2004
The Spanish Armada was sent by the king of Spain to invade England in 1588.
The rebel starship, the Theodore Roosevelt, under the command of Wilson Cole, is preparing to lead Cole's ragtag armada into the Republic, even though he is outnumbered thousands to one. Books in the Mail (W/E 09/20/2009)
Back on June 6, hours before the main D-Day assault force stormed the beaches, a misplaced parachute drop had deposited his paratroop regiment far from the 5,000-ship Allied armada poised off Normandy's beaches.
It had stopped raining, but was still very overcast; even so, the lights of Manhattan and the armada of cruise ships and powerboats spread out underneath us were spectacular.
For those of you who don't know, Cinco de Mayo, which is Spanish for "Day of Reckoning," is the day in 1588 when a small Mexican flotilla defeated the might Spanish Armada on the Bay of Pigs, where the victorious Mexican sailors contracted swine flu. Murmurs.com
It was a wood fire, in an open chimney, for Mrs. Armadale would sit by no other; and I call the place the kitchen, for really a large portion of the work of the kitchen was done there; however, there was a stove in an adjoining room, which accommodated most of the boilers and kettles in use, while the room itself was used for all the "mussy" work. Nobody
In 1908 the English novelist H. G. Wells could imagine an armada of German dirigibles crossing the Atlantic to devastate New York City.
The Armada cost 10 million ducats.
It had more fish, too, although sections were severely impacted by the armada of trawlers and fishing camps.
The next morning, before going to the airport, we drove to Wungong Gorge near Armadale and saw long-billed black cockatoos, western thornbills and western rosellas.
The ships of the Spanish Armada took to sea in 1588.
Spanish Armada: Great fleet sent by Philip II of Spain in 1588 to invade England in conjunction with a Spanish army from Flanders.
The carrier and an accompanying armada of escort ships gave Clinton a 21-gun salute.
The August discovery of the new dinosaur Rajasaurus narmadensis - a nine-meter long, horned carnivore similar to Tyrannosaurus - along the banks of the Narmada River in India adds weight to this theory.
Tiny glints of light appeared in the distance and began to move at great speed towards the enemy armada.
Thus Queen Elizabeth I's rousing declamation to her troops at Tilbury in 1588 falls into this category since it is hinged to the crisis of the Spanish Armada.
On its long Atlantic voyage, the armada made good progress with favourable winds filling the sails.
Bismarck, which was the pride of the German Navy, was sunk by the British armada in just about 90 minutes.
Once you have denied us access to a particular facility, we're going to put that on a target list and take it out at a time of our choosing, and not have to create large armadas every four months to impose our will.
At this point the English sent in fireships and the Armada scattered in disarray.
The U.S. armada at Culebra was swelled by a flotilla of support vessels, including colliers and torpedo boats.
But with shared awareness, the remains of the Armada could have regrouped and still had a good chance to win, or at least to resupply in the nearby Spanish Netherlands and attack again later.
At Tobermory, on the west of Scotland, a little handful of men have a strong faith that a sunken galleon from the Spanish Armada is the prison house of great treasure, and their faith is productive of an energy which makes zealous quest. Things That Matter Most: Devotional Papers
Third, Jenkins is rather positive on English Catholics, most of whom remained loyal to Elizabeth except in extremis; the students at the English College in Rome cheered when they heard the Armada had failed in 1588. October Books 19) Doctor Who - Slipback
This drained some of the waste liquid out of the pond, from where it was transported by more open-air ditches to a local river, then to the sacred Narmada River, and eventually to the Gulf of Cambay now known as the Gulf of Khambhat where the local fishermen fished. THE STORY OF STUFF
The U.S. armada at Culebra was swelled by a flotilla of support vessels, including colliers and torpedo boats.
Y dizen, que los Portugueses con ciertas Carauelas aportaron por alli, haura dos años, llamãdose Españoles, y vassallos del rey de Castilla, y robaron muchas islas, y las saquearon, y lleuaron mucha gente captiua, porque como veyan q nuestra armada se haiza enla nueua España, tomassen los nuestros cõ los dela tierra mal credito. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803 — Volume 02 of 55 1521-1569 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing
It is plain that her own propaganda, her sheer longevity and the defeat of the Armada have beguiled us into ignoring the problems of her reign.
O Bharata, there, flows in a westward course the sacred river Narmada, graced by Priyangu and mango trees, and engarlanded with thickest of canes. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3

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