Example sentences for: seas

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

  • 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.

  • At 45 to 50 knots, the wind shrieked throughout the ship and was actually tearing off the tops of the 25-to-30-foot seas.

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

  • Hemmed in between the Apennine mountains and the sea, for centuries Genoa tended, like historic rival Venice on the east coast, to turn its back on Italy and seek its fortune on the high seas.

  • This group of islands north of Andros and New Providence, only 12 sq miles (41⁄2 sq km) in all, are known as the “fishbowl of the Bahamas” because of the rich seas around them.


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