NAVAL in a Sentence

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25 example sentences for NAVAL, such as:

1. He is a naval officer.
2. He is a retired naval officer.
3. He was the senior serving naval officer.
4. The questions treated in it were purely naval.
5. Beiyang Navy is the earliest naval force of China.

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 Meanings and Examples of NAVAL
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
naval
 a.  relating to, or adjacent to the sea; relating to marine shipping or navigation
Classic Sentence:
1  This peace will be turning all our rich naval officers ashore.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
2  The Crofts took possession with true naval alertness, and were to be visited.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
3  Louisa had fine naval fervour to begin with, and they would soon grow more alike.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 18
4  One would have said that he had been, in his day, a naval officer of some sort or other.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 2 Humanity Appears upon the Scene, Hand in Hand with Trouble
5  The questions treated in it were purely naval.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XI. The Adventure of The Naval Treaty
6  A middle-aged man, handsome and virile, in the uniform of a retired naval officer, was speaking in one of the rooms, and a small crowd was pressing round him.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER XXII
7  Only Count Rostov was pleased with them as he had been pleased with those of the naval officer, the senator, and in general with whatever speech he had last heard.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER XXII
8  In undress naval uniform, with a dirk, and holding his cap under his arm, he handed Kutuzov a garrison report and the keys of the town.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 15: CHAPTER X
9  With that he flourished off the contents of his little tin pot, as if he had made the voyage, and had passed a first-class examination before the highest naval authorities.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 57. THE EMIGRANTS
10  The old were for the most part either in old uniforms of the nobility, buttoned up closely, with spurs and hats, or in their own special naval, cavalry, infantry, or official uniforms.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 6: Chapter 27
11  Commanded by a naval Post-Captain, the Rattler made a rattling voyage of it, and did some service; how much does not appear.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 101. The Decanter.
12  Elsewhere Agrippa, with favouring winds and gods, proudly leads on his column; on his brows glitters the prow-girt naval crown, the haughty emblazonment of the war.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK EIGHTH
Example Sentence:
1  The United States is sending a naval task force to the area to evacuate American citizens.
2  New recruits undergo six weeks' basic training at this naval base.
3  Sailors at a naval base had mutinied against their officers.
4  In a naval battle your aim is to sink the enemy's ship.
5  He is a retired naval officer.
6  He is a naval officer.
7  He was the senior serving naval officer.
8  Allegations of sexual harassment have led to disciplinary proceedings being taken against three naval officers.
9  We really don't yet have technology that can effectively detect the presence of radiation in naval cargo.
10  Beiyang Navy is the earliest naval force of China.
11  The missile, which has liquid propellant, is the naval version of India's surface-to-surface missile system.
12  When this naval force was first discovered by the lookouts on Helgoland, there immediately appeared approaching from the German base.
13  Australian naval vessel Ocean Shield would be heading to the latest search area once it had investigated a third acoustic detection elsewhere.