Example sentences for: ocean

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

  • This proud ship of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, sailed clear around the North American continent via the Panama Canal and the Arctic Ocean, to plot a definitive Northwest Passage and hunt German U-boats on the way.

  • While some surely would find the notion of an island vacation with no beach time an unusual prospect indeed, perhaps it isn’t at all a tragedy that Madeira’s shoreline crashes so violently into the ocean.

  • Like a handful of emeralds scattered across blue velvet, the verdant islands of the Commonwealth of the Bahamas stretch across 100,000 sq miles (259,000 sq km) of the Atlantic Ocean.

  • This manmade artery linking the Mediterranean with the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean, allowed a much quicker journey time from Europe to the Middle East, India, and the Far East when it was opened in 1869, a great aid to the Western European powers in managing their expansive Empires.

  • Ocean water temperatures are much less variable than those on land, although variability in the ocean surrounding Antarctica is much reduced compared with that of the Arctic (Figure 1B).


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