flotilla

Costumed participants danced and waved from a colourful flotilla of 80 decorated vessels as they made their way through the city's waterways.

From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026

The remains of a sunken Hungarian cargo ship resurfaced in Croatia, while the hulks of a German river flotilla was seen in Serbia.

From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026

I instead recall coasting past a flotilla of icebergs in Alaska’s Glacier Bay.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026

There was no warning from the Iranian navy to the ships on radio or telling them to turn back, according to the seafarers in the flotilla.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026

Beyond the arc of the harbor, a flotilla of Red Navy ships patrolled the shore—a sash of crimson in the deep blue sea.

From "The Reader" by Traci Chee

This battle between Team USA and Europe at Bethpage Black is also a proxy war between rival flotillas of wonks and analysts who advise both teams.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2025

Aside from government jobs, fishing is the only viable way to make a living, and since the arrival of the Chinese flotillas even that has become difficult.

From BBC ● May 20, 2025

A joint command center with officials from all four parties will be set up immediately in Istanbul to monitor every movement of the flotillas.

From New York Times ● Jul. 22, 2022

One-third of Vietnam’s 96 million people live along the serpentine coastline, where humble flotillas of identical blue-and-red boats bob in ramshackle harbors.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2020

The enemy's destroyers covering the German retirement delivered vigorous attacks in order to delay the pursuit, but were driven back by our destroyers of the Harwich flotillas.

From The Harwich Naval Forces Their Part in the Great War by E. F. (Edward Frederick) Knight