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UK
/kɔːvˈɛt/
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[ US /kɔɹˈvɛt/ ]
[ US /kɔɹˈvɛt/ ]
NOUN
- a highly maneuverable escort warship; smaller than a destroyer
How To Use corvette In A Sentence
- Mediterranean to look out for a French and Spanish squadron, which had been on the coast of Portugal, but returned to Ferrol --- I received all your letters by the Turkish corvette, which is arrived at Messina. The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 2
- You know people have midlife crises when they turn 50 and they go out and buy a red Corvette and drive around college campuses to see if they can still attract babes.
- The troop carrying convoy would then sail from southern English ports protected by an escort of frigates and corvettes.
- Time was when lights tucked away in the front wings were a sign of sophistication and cool, but with the passing of the Corvette and the Lotus Esprit no car has them any more.
- It is huge, encompassing the navy's shipyard, where three 1,200-ton corvettes are being laid down.
- Built by the Corellian Engineering Corporation, the Corellian corvette CR90 is a mid-sized vessel which can function as a troop carrier, light escort vessel, cargo transport, or passenger liner.
- Ships, from small flea-like fighters to gunboats, corvettes and super-battlecruisers are appropriately sized.
- The speeding Corvette swerved to avoid intersection traffic and went into a spin.
- After this non-stop day where he seemed particularly hell bent on making a mess of my house, the figures have been joined by a small red Hot Wheels Corvette race car parked next to one of the sheep, a half-drunk bottle of blue Gatorade, standing quite close to Joseph and a stray piece of pepperoni from the pizza we ordered tonight within spitting distance of the baby Jesus. December 2002
- She nodded and held out what the folk of Mejis called a corvette - "little packet" was the literal definition; "little purse" was the practical one. Wizard and Glass