open sea

Example Sentences

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In another striking show of force, the U.S. military on Wednesday seized two sanctioned oil tankers on the open sea.

From The Wall Street Journal

Information gathered on Chinese Arctic voyages enables its scientists to build computer models of undersea conditions, which its navy can later tap to plot routes allowing them to operate more freely in the open sea.

From The Wall Street Journal

The style Matthiessen conjures is almost visual, with fragments of scene description and lines of unattributed dialogue arranged on the page like solitary brushstrokes or like breakers of spume on the open sea.

From The Wall Street Journal

On October 11, 1982, a huge crowd of reporters, journalists, and people from all walks of life stood on the dock of the Portsmouth Naval Base gazing anxiously out to the open sea beyond the entrance to Portsmouth Harbor.

From Literature

Having seized the vessel, the navy said it could not be towed back to shore due to poor weather and its fragile construction, and it later sank in the open sea.

From BBC