Example sentences for: maritime

How can you use “maritime” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Besides his invention of the tetrahedral kite, the exhibits illustrate his work on the telephone and inventions of medical and maritime instruments.

  • Kedgeree , a vegetable curry, popular with seamen, has, notwithstanding tarry appetites, not the remotest connection with matters nautical; kickback is shown by the OED2e to be a 20th-century coinage, and there is not evidence to suggest it ever had anything to do with maritime affairs; and kite , for which the OED2e includes a 7th-century quotation for the (original) bird sense, found a metaphoric application to sail not much before the middle of the 19th century.

  • The decision was made by a federal maritime commission and could be overturned by Clinton.

  • Next to Sa Llotja, a cannon and an anchor surround the 17th-century Consolat de Mar, the former maritime law court — now the seat of the Balearic Islands’ autonomous government.

  • As an important maritime center for the Roman Empire, Genoa would later be put on the map of sea-faring annals forever as the birthplace of Christopher Columbus.


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