How to Use corvette in a Sentence

corvette

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  • Today, the Corvettes are the perfect tools for the job.
    — Chris Cantle, Car and Driver, 23 Aug. 2017
  • The first Corvette rolls off the assembly line in Flint.
    — Kevin Vellturo, courant.com, 30 June 2017
  • The Pohang-class corvettes were some of the first large warships built by South Korean shipyards.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 9 May 2017
  • The auction would include two storied photos of Didion with her white corvette.
    — Mattie Kahn, Town & Country, 18 Nov. 2022
  • Corvette and PT Cruiser club members brought dozens of vehicles.
    — Staff, cleveland.com, 4 July 2017
  • All the while, Russia is slated to launch two icebreaking corvette-class ships armed with cruise missiles in the next several years.
    — chicagotribune.com, 4 May 2017
  • Corvette Cleveland was founded as a club for those with a strong interest in Corvettes, as well as a desire to socialize and compete.
    — Terry Troy, cleveland.com, 17 May 2017
  • The median vessel is a corvette displacing just 1,000 tons.
    — David Axe, Forbes, 21 Dec. 2021
  • The Ukrainian defense ministry also has licensed a Turkish design for a 327-foot corvette.
    — David Axe, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2021
  • There could be several million dollars’ worth of Corvettes lined up at each gathering.
    — Story and Photos By Lance Murray, star-telegram.com, 24 May 2017
  • At Baltiysk, home to the Baltic Fleet and Russia’s most western outpost, grizzled fishermen lined the sea wall, barely glancing up at the modern corvettes steaming out to sea.
    — Neil MacFarquhar, New York Times, 16 Apr. 2016
  • As a tribute to Schubert, Cutler positioned a red Corvette and a male figure with a tiny camera with a flash bulb at one particular spot along the train’s route.
    — Lauren Ritchie, OrlandoSentinel.com, 17 Aug. 2017
  • Two weeks before that, its military intelligence claimed to have sunk the corvette Ivanovets, also off the peninsula’s coast.
    — Yuliya Talmazan, NBC News, 5 Mar. 2024
  • The Type 056 Jiangdao class is a general-purpose corvette, armed with light weapons, designed for offshore patrol duties.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 29 Mar. 2018
  • The rear is taken up by a number of small, corvette-sized ships and one larger ship with a wider beam that does not appear to be a warship—possibly a PLAN oceanographic survey ship.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 29 Mar. 2018
  • Corvettes have become too common, Jaguars too mainstream, BMWs too numerous.
    — Mark Savage, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 1 Aug. 2017
  • Come early to enjoy the collection of classic cars including Mustangs and Corvettes.
    — charlotteobserver, 29 May 2017
  • At 300 warship hulls, the PLAN is the largest navy in the world, counting aircraft carriers, cruisers, destroyers, frigates, corvettes, submarines, and amphibious assault ships.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 20 May 2019
  • Captain Sergei Tronev, the chief of the Russian navy command in the area, said in addition to two submarines moored at the harbor, Tartus now also hosts two missile corvettes, three patrol boats and three supply vessels.
    — Yuras Karmanau, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Sep. 2019
  • Besides owning two Corvettes, Winkler also is a collector of classic cars.
    — Story and Photos By Lance Murray, star-telegram.com, 24 May 2017
  • Smaller than a navy frigate or corvette, they're often used to patrol distant territories, fisheries protection, and search and rescue.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 9 June 2016
  • In 2010, a Yeono-class submarine conducted a surprise torpedo attack on a South Korean Navy corvette, sinking it.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 1 May 2017
  • Those fleets include at least 12 corvettes (small warships) and ten submarines--including four attack submarines and six ballistic missile submarines.
    — Matt Sussis and Yingjie Gu, USA TODAY, 29 June 2018
  • The exercises involve three corvette warships tasked with locating and destroying a mock enemy submarine with the assistance of helicopters in the Sea of Japan, also known as the East Sea.
    — Josh Pennington, CNN, 13 Apr. 2023
  • The committee, however, approved equipment packages for the army totaling 11 billion euros and that will include the purchase of five corvette warships for some two billion euros.
    — Reuters, Fortune, 21 June 2017
  • Many of China’s coast guard vessels are former navy corvettes, capable of long-endurance operations and equipped with helicopter pads, powerful water cannons and guns the same caliber as those on an M1 Abrams tank.
    — Damien Cave, New York Times, 12 June 2023
  • The new vessels included a corvette, a minesweeper and the nuclear submarine Generalissimus Suvorov.
    — Jorge L. Ortiz, USA TODAY, 30 Dec. 2022
  • Sweden, with its own advanced high-tech defense industry, makes its own excellent fighter planes, naval corvettes and submarines, designed to operate in the difficult environment of the Baltic Sea.
    — Steven Erlanger, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2024
  • Sweden, with its own advanced high-tech defense industry, makes its own excellent fighter planes, naval corvettes and submarines, designed to operate in the difficult environment of the Baltic Sea.
    — Steven Erlanger, New York Times, 7 Mar. 2024
  • The apparent casualties suffered by the escorting corvettes reinforces the danger Ukraine’s kamikaze boat fleet poses, despite the high attrition rate to defensive fire.
    — Sébastien Roblin, Popular Mechanics, 3 Aug. 2023

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