unconvoyed
- a word derived from convoy.
Example Sentences
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Soon the news spread that the K-XIII had sailed over and dived through 10,000 miles of brine since leaving Helder in the Netherlands, had scored a distance record never before approached by an unconvoyed submarine.
From Time Magazine Archive
The convoy system was reaching southward through the Caribbean toward the South Atlantic, but in those areas and in the mid-Atlantic, sinkings of unconvoyed ships were still high.
From Time Magazine Archive
Short on tankers, Japan can ill afford to trade a short, unconvoyed lane to Sakhalin for the perilous haul from the south.
From Time Magazine Archive
Many a ship, unconvoyed, had been sunk in the same period.
From Time Magazine Archive
With the submarines as active as they were, unconvoyed ships steered clear of well-known routes, where the German sea-monsters were most likely to lie in wait.
From Ruth Fielding Homeward Bound A Red Cross Worker's Ocean Perils by Emerson, Alice B.
