seagoing

Example Sentences

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The port statement said the source of the spill had been stopped and the "directly involved seagoing vessels have been contained for active clean-up operations."

From Barron's • Apr. 10, 2026

Shipping traffic remains throttled in the Strait of Hormuz, a trade route off Iran’s coast that fully a third of the world’s seagoing oil exports traverse in a normal year.

From Slate • Mar. 11, 2026

“Our wreck suggests a seagoing exchange was conducted west out of Syria and Canaan to southern Cyprus, Crete and other Greek lands.”

From New York Times • Jun. 20, 2024

Before it was found, there were no known wrecks of seagoing ships dating from the 11th to 14th Centuries in English waters.

From BBC • Jun. 6, 2024

A few wind- whipped and decrepit Victorian mansions, remnants of a lost era of seagoing optimism, loomed out of the snowfall on the town’s sporadic hills.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson