at sea
Example Sentences
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Take the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln, which returned to port in Thailand in early September after nine months at sea.
From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2026
GPS satellites transmit signals that guide “smart bombs” to their targets, connect communications networks, even tell troops on the ground and ships at sea exactly where they are.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
In May 2011, word came that Osama bin Laden, the al Qaeda leader behind the 9/11 attacks, had been killed and buried at sea after a U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
According to the charge sheet, the defendants helped to launch "a small boat of poor quality, unfit to navigate at sea, overloaded and equipped with inadequate life-jackets".
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
On their seventh day at sea, the wind again turned into a gale roaring up from the Pole; the temperature plummeted.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
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