flotilla
IPA: fɫoʊtˈɪɫʌ
noun
- (nautical) A small fleet of warships (usually of the same class), or a fleet of small ships.
- (by extension) A small group of things or people
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Examples of "flotilla" in Sentences
- She then returned to the flotilla above the city.
- Clearly, the reason for the flotilla is important.
- Last campaign, the word flotilla was misunderstood.
- She was part of the flotilla at the Battle of New Orleans.
- The action was over quickly and the British flotilla left.
- The operations of the international flotilla were a failure.
- Few vessels of the flotilla survived the East African Campaign.
- The makeup of the flotilla changed during the course of the war.
- The current image showing the route of the flotilla is not accurate.
- Obviously, if there were, the flotilla is to blame for the violence.
- In other words, the flotilla is more about a show than about reality.
- At the turn of the 19th century, the flotilla was still small in numbers.
- The British sent a submarine flotilla to the Baltic sea to stop the trade.
- Israel calls the flotilla a provocation and has stepped up diplomatic efforts to block it.
- If not, I don’t see how the flotilla is supposed to immediately distinguish between being boarded by a state acting legitimately versus a violent attack.
- One of the primary reasons the Turkish Government has been so angry in its denunciations of the Israeli attack on the flotilla is because many of the dead were Turkish citizens.
- Then, since they know that the goal of the flotilla is not delivering goodies, they could do that by letting the Israelis inspect the boat, you avoid civilian deaths as much as possible.
- I do personally think that a positive impact of the flotilla is the prospect of increasing the political space occupied in Palestine by nonviolent resistance to the occupation, and the fact that the flotilla last year had this impact is a matter of public record I give the direct quote from the Hamas parliamentarian below.
- By the way, the more I read, the more I am convinced that the flotilla was an example of how perhaps well-meaning, American and European leftists/peace activitists, who thought they were on a humanitarian mission, were being used by much more militant, violent activists who wanted to provoke Israel to achieve a major propaganda victory on behalf of Hamas.
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