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Sports car named for a small warship
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corvette
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n. 1 (context nautical historical English) A flush-decked warship of the 17th-18th centuries having a single tier of guns; it ranked next below a frigate; -- called in the United States navy a sloop of war. 2 (context nautical English) In a modern navy, ...
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n. a highly maneuverable escort warship; smaller than a destroyer
Usage examples of corvette.
Saks as they tried vainly to get a wicker bassinette into the Corvette.
A Corvette driver I knew was having trouble with his brakes one weekend.
Doxin sat by an interlaboratory communication station and cheered as he saw one of the Rebel corvettes crumble, disintegrating into a cloud of pulverized metal plate and escaping fuel and coolant gases.
When James Playfair had reached the cross-trees, he saw distinctly, through an opening in the mist, a large Federal corvette in full pursuit of the Dolphin.
Anakin raised the electrobinoculars in time to see a trio of enemy corvettes burst into white sprays of yorik coral.
Half a dozen corvette analogs left their blockade posts to defend the larger ship, and long tongues of plasma began to arc out from the cruiser itself.
There were eight light cruisers and twice that number of frigate and corvette analogs on his tail, and they were all traveling far too fast to intend decelerating anywhere near Eclipse.
Han saw - much to his initial bafflement - that the ship was in fact an old Corellian corvette, though heavily modified and anodized a non-reflective black.
The shielding crews continued to catch her attacks, but the corvette fell behind as its dovin basals diverted to protecting the ship.
Arkania, ambushing Yuuzhan Vong corvettes as they felt their way out of the war zone.
More enemy corvettes accelerated toward the Dozen, abandoning their blockade stations.
When a pair of corvettes rushed to block their way, Luke dropped a shadow bomb - they were flying too fast to lock their S-foils into firing position - and used the Force to hurl it into the second vessel.
A trio of black-faceted corvettes drifted in from different angles, filling space with magma missiles and grutchins.
She tapped the data display, indicating a position a quarter of the way around the circle from where the corvettes and frigates were headed - and on the Reecee side of the Bantha.
Still, scores of Yuuzhan Vong frigates and corvettes vanished into stars of dispersing energy before they could organize themselves into a picket wall.