fleet
noun
the largest organized unit of naval ships grouped for tactical or other purposes.
fleetness
-
a word derived from
fleet.
Example Sentences
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The early signs are she remains the same talent, showing glimpses of her explosive shot-making and fleetness of foot on her return in Brisbane last week.
From BBC ● Jan. 12, 2024
With stunning fleetness, Mackey here captured both the late, great Dutch composer’s wistful profundity as well as his brassy brazenness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2021
All cities develop budgets and set staffing levels while possessing better local knowledge than the Legislature has - and, we dare say, more fleetness of foot.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 24, 2020
At the Kennedy Center, he approached the score with his hallmark light fleetness, the way he conducts Beethoven, or the translucent Verdi Requiem he led here in 2018.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 18, 2019
Something more poignant, a heavier disturbing perfume, was necessary against a figure seen only from a balcony or with a vague fleetness behind a grille gracefully wrought out of iron.
From San Crist?bal de la Habana by Joseph Hergesheimer
