seagoing
Example Sentences
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The work of running a port is a constant maintenance of channels, breakwaters, bridges, and the machinery of seagoing commerce.
From Los Angeles Times
“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
Before it was found, there were no known wrecks of seagoing ships dating from the 11th to 14th Centuries in English waters.
From BBC
A seagoing freighter as long as two football fields slammed into a support pier and the bridge connecting Lower Tampa Bay to St. Petersburg.
From Los Angeles Times
It was in truth more of a circus, with water tanks instead of rings, where captive marine mammals and other seagoing creatures were trained to do tricks for admission-paying human audiences.
From Los Angeles Times
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