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• The army received a bigger share of this year's budget increase than the navy or air force.From the entry army
• This shirt comes in three colorways: taupe, red, and navy.From the entry colorway
• Almost every maritime country has some kind of bluewater navy.From the entry bluewater
• Navy issued two formal apologies to Lingít communities in Alaska for assaults committed over a century ago.2024 October 29, Yvonne Krumrey, “Navy apologizes to Angoon community for bombarding village in 1882”, in NPR. From the entry Lingít
• Regal sea goddesses have navy blue bodies inscribed with yellow lines and often polka dots.2022 April 12, Jack Israel, “Short but Beautiful Lives”, in world.dan.org. From the entry regal sea goddess
• The French islands didn't have the luxury of a deep-pocketed navy bankrolling a rum industry.2017, Jeff Cioletti, The Drinkable Globe..., pages 173-174. From the entry rhum agricole
• Jack told me he’d been in the navy toward the end of World War II.2011, Paula Fox, “The Tender Night”, in News from the World: Stories and Essays, New York, N.Y.: W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, pages 58–59. From the entry nauticalness
• The navy regularly swarmed the streets of Plymouth on a Saturday night.2009, Dawn French, Dear Fatty, page 180. From the entry fishhead
• There was plenty of work for Wrens in the training bases of the navy.2008, Brian Lavery, CHURCHILL'S NAVY: THE SHIPS, MEN AND ORGANISATION, 1939-1945. From the entry wren
• The British, French and Dutch navies also practiced a grimmer form of choking.2007, Darius Rejali, “Choking”, in Torture and Democracy, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 282. From the entry keelhauling
• They were solid black, brown or navy, and there was no purpose in showing them off.1993 August 27, John Morell, “Brace Yourselves, Guys: Suspenders Are Not Meant to Be Seen”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los…. From the entry shoulder strap
• In her navy linen trousers and her, perhaps too tight, white jersey, Jennifer was determinedly gamine.1984, Anita Brookner, Hotel du Lac, Penguin, published 2016, page 54. From the entry gamine
• Left, a dressful of sunbursts, navy, red and white acetate, 8 to 16, $95.1970, The New Yorker - Volume 46, Issue 5, page 3. From the entry dressful
• This national army or militia was called the fyrd; the shipfyrd manned the navy.1965, James Westfall Thompson, Edgar Nathaniel Johnson, An introduction to medieval Europe. From the entry shipfyrd
• In black with tri-toned grey, red with tri-toned red, navy with tri-toned blue, brown with tri-toned brown.1959 October 7, The Clarion-Ledger, volume CXXI, number 171, Jackson, Miss., page 11. From the entry tri-toned
• In bluette, white, red, wine, maize, royal blue, green, brown, navy.1948 February 28, New Castle Store, “Boys’ and Girls’ Anklets”, in New Castle News, 67th year, number 44, New Castle, Pa., →OCLC, page 18. From the entry bluette
• Navy should score once but the Mid-shipmen definitely are cruising for a bruising.1945 November 30, “Underdog, Undaunted Navy Ready for Army”, in The Independent Record, Helena, Montana. From the entry cruising for a bruising
• Lumber-jacketed Airtone in light-and-dark greens, Indian brown with beige or navy with powder blue.1940 May 3, “Saturday at Horne’s”, in The Pittsburgh Press, volume 56, number 312, Pittsburgh, Pa., page thirty-one. From the entry lumber-jacketed
• "Well, we got plenty blacks, navy blues, Copenhagen blues and brown in our spring line, Mr.1912, Montague Glass, Elkan Lubliner: American. From the entry Copenhagen blue
• The refusal to maintain such a navy would invite trouble, and if trouble came would insure disaster.1902, Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt's Second State of the Union Address. From the entry invite
• Navy ships, despite her damage, when the I-26 spotted her and sent a salvo of Type 95 torpedoes in her direction.2021 March 10, Drachinifel, 28:10 from the start, in Guadalcanal Campaign - The Big Night Battle: Night 1 (IJN 3(?) : 2 USN), archived…. From the entry long
• Navy officer who'd made alterations, ostensibly for "improper maintenance" of the Mark 14, which, they continued to insist, was absolutely fine.2020 February 12, Drachinifel, 15:22 from the start, in The Mark 14 Torpedo - Failure is Like Onions, archived from the original on 24 Nov…. From the entry real world
• Looking at their drab boxer short type navy blue bathing suits, I thought I understood what motivated their request.2016, Mort Greer, The Whole Shebang, Lulu, →ISBN, page 96. From the entry boxer short
• Boarders wore navy pleated skirts with white blouses; day girls had brown gymslips, cream blouses and beige jumpers.2013, Jane Howells, Leehurst Swan School: A Centenary History, page 16. From the entry gymslip
• I hold up the modest navy biketard that will cover me from my upper chest down to my midthighs.2012, Rachel Cohn, Beta, Hachette UK, →ISBN. From the entry biketard
• Somewhere behind the navy sky the Cairns ships hung in gravity-defying non-orbit, in any emergency a screaming red-hot minute away.2012, Ken MacLeod, Engine City: Engines of Light, →ISBN. From the entry red-hot minute
• Navy with an army of gonorrhea-infected Stepford clones?2011 July 18, Matt Culkin, “The 16 Most Hilariously Dishonest Old School Advertisements”, Cracked.com. From the entry Stepford
• The standard conductor’s uniform is a conservative affair: a single-breasted navy jacket, two logoed brass buttons, and straight-leg, pleatless pants.2009 July 28, Michael M. Grynbaum, “Offering Alterations and Fittings, Before the Next Train”, in New York Times. From the entry logoed
• Being a Plymouth girl, I had heard plenty of racy stories about navy chaps, or fishheads as we called you.2009, Dawn French, Dear Fatty, page 180. From the entry fishhead
• Available in bluette, burgundy, cream, peach, white, teal, or navy.2008 December 22–29, Warm Things, “[Winter Showcase] Down Bed Jacket”, in The New Yorker, New York, N.Y., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 43. From the entry bluette
• The bolts were stacked near a wall in shades of teal, seafoam, turquoise, navy, sapphire, sky blue, cream, gold, crimson, coral.2008 May 28, Eric Konigsberg, “A City Tailor Who Revels in the Boldest Sportswear”, in New York Times. From the entry seafoam
• Gunboats and other vessels with shallow drafts that could navigate inland waterways were part of the Civil War's brown-water navies.2005, Clifford L. Linedecker, Civil War, A to Z: The Complete Handbook of America's Bloodiest Conflict, page 57. From the entry brown-water navy
• Men in shorts and navy Jacky Howe singlets were building a causeway across the spill of swift, shallow water.2002, Kerry McGinnis, Heart Country, unnumbered page. From the entry Jacky Howe
• Felling for the navy continued for the remainder of the century and, periodically, during the 18th and into the 19th century.2001, Colin R. Tubbs, The New Forest: History, Ecology & Conservation, 2nd edition, Lyndhurst, Hants.: New Forest Ninth Centenary Trust…. From the entry doddard

Meaning of navy

1. noun A country's entire maritime military force, including ships and personnel.
2. noun A governmental department in charge of a country's maritime military force.
3. noun Any fleet of maritime vessels, and especially the entire fleet of any particular nationality, including vessels that are commercial, military, or both.

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Questions about navy in a sentence

How do you use navy in a sentence?

Navy is used as a noun and adjective. For example: “People who get seasick easily shouldn't join the navy.”

What is a short sentence with navy?

“Lieutenant Lindquist is navy through and through.”

What does navy mean?

Navy means a country's entire maritime military force, including ships and personnel.