Example sentences for: seas

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

  • Twenty years later, the Chinese withdrew again from the South Seas trade.

  • Dublin has international restaurants galore, and the New Irish Cuisine is built upon fresh products of Ireland’s seas, rivers, and farms.

  • He also had orang laut pirates patrolling the seas to extort tribute from passing ships.

  • Once re-established in Java, the Dutch attempted to increase their influence and also to prevent the Balinese from plundering ships wrecked off the coast (the Balinese considered shipwrecks to be gifts from the deities of the seas, and felt it would be insulting to refuse them).

  • Unable or unwilling to court the old vassal Malay States or the orang laut pirates to patrol the seas, the new rulers forfeited their predecessors’ commercial monopoly in the Melaka Straits and, with it, command of the Moluccas spice trade.


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