Crossword-Solution: FRIGATES
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| Clue | Answers |
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| Class of warships | 1 answer |
| Combat-ready craft | 1 answer |
| Naval escort ships | 1 answer |
| Naval escorts | 1 answer |
| Ship-rigged war vessels. | 1 answer |
| The Constitution and others. | 1 answer |
| The USS Constitution and others | 1 answer |
| warships | 3 answers |
| Mediterranean vessels | 4 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TAREE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with FRIGATES (5)
Until further information, therefore, I shall maintain it to be a sea-unicorn of colossal dimensions, armed not with a halberd, but with a real spur, as the armoured frigates, or the ‘rams’ of war, whose massiveness and motive power it would possess at the same time.
Frigates, too, could always be acquired later by sheer adventure; and your real hero generally saved up a square-rigged ship for the final achievement and the rapt return.
Ferrol is the grand naval arsenal of Spain, and has shared in the ruin of the once splendid Spanish navy: it is no longer thronged with those thousand shipwrights who prepared for sea the tremendous three-deckers and long frigates, the greater part of which were destroyed at Trafalgar.
Denham, already seated before the papers, called out after him, “Next month the Dido starts for a cruise that way, and I shall request her captain officially to give you a look in and see how you get on.” The Dido was one of the smart frigates on the China station--and five-and-thirty years make a big slice of time.
XLVI "But will you send some frigates, albeit few, (Provided that unfurled your standards be) No sooner shall they loose from hence, that crew Of spoilers shall within their confines flee; -- Nubians are they, or idle Arabs -- who, Knowing that you are severed by the sea From your own realm, and warring with our band, Have taken courage to assail your land.
Quotes with FRIGATES (3)
She pointed to the wreckage of one of the frigates in the distance. Half the ship had landed atop one of the towers on the edge of the city, the other half on the flatland beyond. “You didn’t…do that, did you?” He shrugged with proper dramatic flair. “I did say I came to rescue you. They were in my way.
Chaos that closely resembled panic awaited. Shuttles raced to the presumed safety of the planet below while fighters crisscrossed the perimeter of the station. Platoon-sized formations of frigates and several cruisers formed up and accelerated away. To where the approaching attackers were located? She didn’t give a damn what her mother said in public. This was a bona fide insurrection.
I am in no mood to fulminate on paper--I wish the two of us were in a room together talking of what matters most, the air thick with affinity. In January a man crawls into a cave of hopelessness; he hallucinates sympathies catching fire. Letters are glaciers, null frigates, trapping us where we are in the moment, unable to carry us on toward truth.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 8 times in crossword archives (1943–2018).