Example sentences for: seagoing

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

  • To protect its seagoing interests and trade routes, Portugal established strategic garrisons in Goa (India), Malacca (East Indies), and Hormuz in the Persian Gulf.

  • These Indians, also from South America, swept north in fast seagoing canoes, attacking and either eating or driving Arawak men off island after island, then appropriating their women.

  • This was not just to control the tides but also to manipulate trade, as it prevented seagoing ships from taking their goods down the river — they had to transfer the goods to locally owned boats for their journey.


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