squadron
noun
a portion of a naval fleet or a detachment of warships; a subdivision of a fleet.
squadrons
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pluralof squadron.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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But the deployment of 19 warships, air-defense units, fighter squadrons and paratroopers across the region is straining servicemembers and their families and creating a maintenance backlog that could take years to unwind, the people said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
PLA engineers could fail to get the technology to work in a real wartime scenario, making China’s robot squadrons easy for enemies to pick off or disable.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 25, 2026
Many of its 29 air force squadrons use Russian Sukhoi-30 jets.
From BBC ● Dec. 3, 2025
With its last two MiG-21 squadrons retired, India will now have 29 fighter units against a sanctioned 42.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2025
Even men from other squadrons came one by one to conceal themselves in the darkness and pop out.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
