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n. (plural of fleet English) vb. (en-third-person singular of: fleet)

Usage examples of "fleets".

And for the fact that those fleets have taken terrific losses without batting an eyelash—or whatever their equivalent is.

It was obvious that the two Enemy fleets had intended to attack in close coordination, staggering their assaults just enough to draw the Fleet into committing against the first threat before the second revealed itself.

Yes, the plan called for both fleets to enter this system simultaneously.

The brutally massive Home Hive Two B had somehow formed at a forty light-minute orbital radius, and the result was the stream of glowing dust motes in the sphere towards which Sixth and Third Fleets were bound.

But the fact remains that those inconceivable fleets would have overwhelmed us if we'd had to face them in the fullness of their strength.

With these moderate views, Augustus stationed two permanent fleets in the most convenient ports of Italy, the one at Ravenna, on the Adriatic, the other at Misenum, in the Bay of Naples.

Antony to the foreign monks, was obliged to hasten the composition, that it might be ready for the sailing of the fleets, (tom.

On the approach of their fleets, the Genoese, with their families and effects, retired into the city: their empty habitations were reduced to ashes.

Instead, mind-numbingly immense fleets had advanced in dead silence, indifferent to losses, grinding the defenses of one system after another to powder with a nonfeeling relentlessness even more horrible than Rigelian malevolence.

Even LeBlanc, whose job it was to remind them all of how little they truly knew-even now-about the Arachnids, had been unable to believe that any race could sacrifice so many ships, entire fleets of superdreadnoughts, even planets inhabited by its own kind, just to set a massive trap.

And for the fact that those fleets have taken terrific losses without batting an eyelash-or whatever their equivalent is.

Now they're convinced that they've figured out the secret of the mammoth Bug fleets we faced at the beginning of the war.

Instead, there would be three separate fleets, each with its own System Which Must Be Defended, each alone in the cosmos with no knowledge of how the other two fared-an unthinkable logical contradiction.

Eighth Fleet had been allowed neither the years of training time which Sixth-and Fifth-Fleet had been granted, nor honed and polished in the unforgiving crucible of combat, and so it had been inevitable that First Fang Ynaathar's command should lack the incomparable temper those fleets had attained.

To provide total security for everybody, we'd have to keep forces equal to the combined Bug fleets in every inhabited system in the Alliance at all times!