at sea
Example Sentences
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A cruise ship hit with a deadly hantavirus outbreak arrived in Spain's Canary Islands Sunday, where most of the nearly 150 people on board will be evacuated and flown home after weeks at sea.
From Barron's • May 10, 2026
Instead, the elevated heart rates may help remove lactic acid from the body and restore depleted oxygen reserves that could not fully recover while at sea.
From Science Daily • May 9, 2026
Deploying nuclear capabilities at sea would make it harder for Washington and its allies to track all of North Korea’s firing bases, weapons experts say.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026
Among those who left was a woman accompanying the body of her husband, who had died on April 11 while the ship was at sea in the Atlantic.
From Los Angeles Times • May 7, 2026
Or I’d be walking along the shoreline with the others, and I’d spot him wading up to his waist through the shallows, impossibly thin and pale, as though his time at sea had eroded him.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
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