NAVY in a Sentence

Learn NAVY from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

22 example sentences for NAVY, such as:

1. My son is in the navy.
2. The navy are on a search and rescue mission.
3. The navy is our principal bulwark against invasion.
4. A captain in the navy ranks above a captain in the army.
5. The navy of our fathers employed cables, ours employs chains.

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 Meanings and Examples of NAVY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
navy
 n.  a dark shade of blue
 n.  an organization of military vessels belonging to a country and available for sea warfare
Classic Sentence:
1  "Arthur Charpentier, sub-lieutenant in Her Majesty's navy," cried Gregson, pompously, rubbing his fat hands and inflating his chest.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER VI. TOBIAS GREGSON SHOWS WHAT HE CAN DO
2  The profession, either navy or army, is its own justification.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
3  I presume to observe, Sir Walter, that, in the way of business, gentlemen of the navy are well to deal with.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
4  She had only navy lists and newspapers for her authority, but she could not doubt his being rich; and, in favour of his constancy, she had no reason to believe him married.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
5  A little beauty, and a few smiles, and a few compliments to the navy, and I am a lost man.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
6  Wentworth; Captain Wentworth of the navy.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 20
7  The captain introduced her to the secretary of a congressman, a cynical young widow with many acquaintances in the navy.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
8  I am told, on good authority, that on the Barbary coast, a Commodore Davis of the British navy found the skeleton of a sperm whale.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 45. The Affidavit.
9  The navy of our fathers employed cables, ours employs chains.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE ANKLE-CHAIN MUST HAVE UNDERGONE A CERTAIN...
10  "You may perceive, madame, by my uniform, that I am an officer in the English navy," replied the young man.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 49 FATALITY
11  I have made an agreement with the navy, that the access to my island shall be free of all charge.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 117. The Fifth of October.
12  Herein it is the same with the American whale fishery as with the American army and military and merchant navies, and the engineering forces employed in the construction of the American Canals and Railroads.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 27. Knights and Squires.
Example Sentence:
1  A captain in the navy ranks above a captain in the army.
2  The tradi-tionalist influences within the navy marked it off as a rather old-fashioned institution.
3  The navy are on a search and rescue mission.
4  The air force and navy were modernised but the army, very much the poor relation, was not.
5  The navy played a limited but significant role in defeating the rebellion.
6  My son is in the navy.
7  The navy is our principal bulwark against invasion.
8  A peculiar attribute of this sect is the character of many of its members: bankers, civil service officials, navy officers, army officers and others of the finest professions.
9  Queen Elizabeth's navy defeated the mighty armada that threatened the English coast.
10  Diana's husband is a captain in the navy, a gallant officer and a good man.