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
The work of running a port is a constant maintenance of channels, breakwaters, bridges, and the machinery of seagoing commerce.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 24, 2025
“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
The stars are the friends of explorers, then with seagoing ships on Earth and now with spacefaring ships in the sky.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
