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naval battle

NOUN
  1. a pitched battle between naval fleets

How To Use naval battle In A Sentence

  • The two-day affair at Hampton Roads attracted worldwide attention and was destined for inclusion among the great naval battles history.
  • This time it was China's turn, as a naval battle group of the People's Liberation Army, the largest ever to visit, sailed out of the harbour.
  • The recreations of naval battles are unsentimental, thrilling and scrupulous in their reality.
  • He fought alongside the duke at the naval battles off Lowestoft in 1665 and at Sole Bay in 1672 and, though a catholic, was made colonel of a regiment of horse.
  • Their adjacent solo installations are well worth seeing, if only because they are profoundly at odds with each other: Mr. Bozhkov salvages, while Mr. Riley torches the place in a "naumachia" (Roman naval battle). NYT > Home Page
  • The last scene in Mr. Cowley's drama is the Gulf of Lepanto, where from dawn to dusk on Oct. 7, 1571, just a year after the atrocity in Cyprus, was fought the last naval battle in history in which oared galleys, ramming each other head-on, played the major role. When Worlds Collide
  • Augustus was also very proud of the shows he offered to the Romans and one of the statements describes a naval battle on the Tiber which involved more than 30 triremes and biremes.
  • He took part in a great naval battle.
  • In a naval battle your aim is to sink the enemy's ship.
  • The battles in the trenches were long and resulted in much more loss of life while the naval battles in most cases helped bring about the end of the war.
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