FRIGATE in a Sentence
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Example sentences for FRIGATE, such as:
1. In the first sentence, the ship is described as a frigate, which has a pretty strong military connotation.
2. Pontmercy had the colors hoisted to the peak, and sailed proudly past under the guns of the British frigates.
2. Pontmercy had the colors hoisted to the peak, and sailed proudly past under the guns of the British frigates.
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Meanings and Examples of FRIGATE
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frigate
n. a United States warship larger than a destroyer and smaller than a cruiser
n. a medium size square-rigged warship of the 18th and 19th centuries
Classic Sentence:
1 They had begun to feel anxious at the Naval Department, on account of the lack of news from that fatal frigate, The Medusa, which was destined to cover Chaumareix with infamy and Gericault with glory.
2 The frigate Algesiras was anchored alongside the Orion, and the poor convict had fallen between the two vessels: it was to be feared that he would slip under one or the other of them.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE ANKLE-CHAIN MUST HAVE UNDERGONE A CERTAIN...
Context Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE ANKLE-CHAIN MUST HAVE UNDERGONE A CERTAIN...
3 The whaling-pike is similar to a frigate's boarding-weapon of the same name.
4 But the brig, frigate or what they call it, for I've no head for sea terms, never crossed a ditch without saying the Lord's Prayer backwards, struck a rock.
5 So the pitch and sulphur-freighted brigs of the bold Hydriote, Canaris, issuing from their midnight harbors, with broad sheets of flame for sails, bore down upon the Turkish frigates, and folded them in conflagrations.
6 I feel strained, half stranded, as ropes that tow dismasted frigates in a gale; and I may look so.
7 Pontmercy had the colors hoisted to the peak, and sailed proudly past under the guns of the British frigates.
Example Sentence:
1 In the first sentence, the ship is described as a frigate, which has a pretty strong military connotation.