sea story
Example Sentences
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“In my years in the Navy, it wouldn’t be a sea story if there wasn’t some embellishment,” Hung Cao, acting Navy Secretary, said at the time.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
“How did that happen? … There’s a great sea story there that we’ll never know.”
From Washington Post ● Nov. 10, 2020
But there was no better sea story in Rio than Santiago Lange of Argentina.
From New York Times ● Aug. 22, 2016
Mystery stories shlock-style had a white strip, but the librarian would never file Chandler or Highsmith under mystery – they were literature, just as Moby-Dick was not a sea story and was not romance.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 23, 2012
When the captain had finished his business, they had some dinner at the inn; and while the two men drank their grog, Herbert was a delighted listener to many a sea story, old and new.
From Adela Cathcart, Volume 3 by George MacDonald
