How to Use naval in a Sentence

naval

adjective
  • Crowds at the naval port of Portsmouth threw roses at the sailors.
    — Simon Usborne, Town & Country, 13 Mar. 2022
  • The guardrails should reach or exceed the height of the child’s naval during use.
    — Samson McDougall, Parents, 5 Oct. 2024
  • Divers and unmanned naval vessels pulled up the rest from the bottom of the ocean.
    — Arkansas Online, 18 Feb. 2023
  • The once-proud Navy hospital was built to serve a naval base that shut down in the 1990s.
    — Joe Rubin, The New Republic, 17 Sep. 2021
  • China already has a naval base on the coast of East Africa.
    — Washington Post, 17 Sep. 2021
  • He was born in Pomona, Calif., and is a naval aviator and test pilot.
    — Lee Roop | [email protected], al, 4 Apr. 2023
  • At the same time, Ukraine has attacked Russian naval vessels in the Black Sea as well as in port.
    — Eric Schmitt, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2023
  • Its fleet isn't large enough to meet global day-to-day demands for naval forces.
    — Joel Mathis, The Week, 18 Apr. 2022
  • They were taken to a naval base in the Philippines and flown to Guam for processing.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 16 Sep. 2021
  • France opened a major overseas naval base in Abu Dhabi.
    — Isabel Debre, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 May 2022
  • As one of the littoral states on the Black Sea, Russia can claim the movement of ships through the area is to return to their home naval base.
    — NBC News, 19 Mar. 2022
  • Luria’s district includes Norfolk, site of the world’s largest naval base.
    — Doyle McManuswashington Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 3 Apr. 2022
  • Russian troops seized Crimea from Ukraine in 2014 and began using it as a naval base.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 2 May 2022
  • Prince Philip kept a reminder of his naval career in his office.
    — Victoria Murphy, Town & Country, 14 Nov. 2022
  • The slinky was a surefire way to secure naval instruments in rough seas.
    — Charlie Eccleshare, The Athletic, 26 Dec. 2024
  • The 11 naval officers behind the plot hoped that also killing Chaplin would start a war with the U.S.
    — Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Jan. 2022
  • And a convoy, for example, in the north passed the inspection and then was hit by a naval missile.
    — CBS News, 17 Mar. 2024
  • The distance from naval ports on the Chinese mainland to the Taiwanese capital of Taipei is 141 miles.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 13 July 2023
  • The Flare The flare jean has taken on many personas over the years, from buttoned, naval garb to the bohemian bell bottoms of the ’70s.
    — Kristina Rutkowski, Vogue, 24 Sep. 2024
  • Well, San Diego being a port city and having a naval presence, that was kind of always in the background here.
    — Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Mar. 2023
  • The test was launched in the Sinpo area, a central coastal region that is home to a North Korean naval base.
    — Timothy W. Martin, WSJ, 19 Oct. 2021
  • My father—a naval officer—used to say that the length of a woman’s hair should be in proportion to the width of her hips.
    — Kathleen Baird-Murray, Glamour, 2 Mar. 2023
  • Flags are also at half-mast on all naval stations and vessels.
    — Haadiza Ogwude, The Enquirer, 1 Jan. 2025
  • The port has a naval base, shipbuilding yards and an oil terminal, and is key for exports.
    — Hanna Arhirova, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Aug. 2023
  • Brown was also the first Black naval officer to die in the Korean War.
    — Odie Henderson, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Nov. 2022
  • Sometimes, staff from the naval base will call in lunch orders and pick them up via helicopter.
    — Washington Post, 20 Dec. 2021
  • Taiwanese soldiers at a naval base in Taoyuan on Friday.
    — Jennifer Jett, NBC News, 22 Oct. 2024
  • In September, Kim inspected the site for a new naval port.
    — Gawon Bae, CNN Money, 13 Apr. 2025
  • Each year the Cuauhtémoc sets out at the end of classes at the naval military school to finish cadets’ training.
    — Ruth Brown, Los Angeles Times, 18 May 2025
  • Each year, the Cuauhtémoc sets out at the end of classes at the naval military school to finish cadets' training.
    — Greg Wehner, FOXNews.com, 18 May 2025

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