Fleet and Short

Fleet

Fleet adjective - Moving, proceeding, or acting with great speed.

Short and fleet are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Short" instead an adjective "Fleet".

Short

Short adjective - Having relatively little height.

Fleet and short are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Fleet" instead an adjective "Short".

Both words in one sentence

  • Standard Sci-Fi Fleet Dick's short story Tony and the Beetles, where the whole enemy fleet is said to consist of armed freighters only.
  • Literature / The Lost Fleet Legacy Vessel Naming: Every ship named Invincible has a very short lifespan - by the standards of a fleet where it's almost unheard of for a ship to survive three years past its commissioning.
  • A short battle between a Guild exploratory fleet and the Terran ships doesn't end well for the aliens.
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