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UK
/fɹˈɪɡət/
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[ US /ˈfɹɪɡət/ ]
[ US /ˈfɹɪɡət/ ]
NOUN
- a United States warship larger than a destroyer and smaller than a cruiser
- a medium size square-rigged warship of the 18th and 19th centuries
How To Use frigate In A Sentence
- In the first sentence, the ship is described as a frigate, which has a pretty strong military connotation. Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » The Five Page Challenge!
- Four of them were shipmates from the old Type 21 frigate HMS Avenger, stokers from 3D Mess, two of whom now live in Lancashire, one in Merseyside and the other in Guernsey.
- But the frigate rallied and righted while the sea streamed below decks, though her hatches were laid and her hawseholes bagged.
- Marbled godwit, frigate bird, roseate spoonbill, the palm warbler. OFF THE CHART
- The number of destroyers, frigates and submarines each in the Pakistan navy are approximately half that of India.
- The troop carrying convoy would then sail from southern English ports protected by an escort of frigates and corvettes.
- Twelve years ago: A US frigate fired warning shots across the bow of an Iraqi oil tanker in the Gulf of Oman -- apparently the first shots fired by the United States in the Persian Gulf crisis.
- These weren't frigates, cruisers, carriers or even battleships.
- The frigate turned around glowing with jet engines, aimed at the center of the moveless Galaxy spiral whirlpool and started gaining speed.
- Also, the magnificent frigatebird (Fregata magnificens), the roseate spoonbill (Ajaia ajaja), the anhinga (Anhinga anhinga), and the jabiru (Jabiru mycteria) are common. Coastal Venezuelan mangroves