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Spanish Armada

NOUN
  1. the great fleet sent from Spain against England by Philip II in 1588

How To Use Spanish Armada In A Sentence

  • The destruction of the Spanish Armada showed England's superiority as a naval power.
  • A year later, secure in the north, Gloriana's licensed pirates in their gun-crammed galleons, aided by a storm, saw off the Spanish Armada.
  • The superior firepower provided by bronze cannonry proved crucial in the English navy's victory in 1588 over the much larger Spanish Armada.
  • Successive Spanish armadas against the Protestant English and Dutch, including major efforts in 1588 and 1639, failed because the attackers were unable to win command of the sea.
  • The first bearer of the name Reynolds came to our shores with the Spanish Armada and the galleon on which he travelled was wrecked on the North coast of Sligo.
  • Here's me with a serious piece of Spanish Armada cannonry pulled out of Kinnagoe by the Derry Divers’ Club.
  • The Spanish Armada was sent by the king of Spain to invade England in 1588.
  • He also fancies himself a playwright, and approaches the well-heeled Mr. Dangle (Darragh Kennan) and the waspish Mr. Sneer (Jonathan Smoots), a pair of opinionated connoisseurs, in the hopes of enlisting their support for his latest effort, a tragedy called "The Spanish Armada" that ranks alongside "The Most Lamentable Comedy and Most Cruel Death of Pyramus and Thisbe" as the worst play ever written. Those Who Cannot Do…
  • The destruction of the Spanish Armada showed England's superiority as a naval power.
  • Fleeing with other demoralized shreds of the Spanish Armada, the galley had sailed up the eastern coast of England, driven on ahead of the English fleet by gales and storms.
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