inland sea
Example Sentences
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Moscow and Tehran have used the world’s largest inland sea to move everything from drones to oil and wheat.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026
Over time, increasing amounts of freshwater flowed into the Western Interior Seaway, a vast inland sea that once ran north to south across what is now central North America and split the continent in two.
From Science Daily • Dec. 15, 2025
During the late Cretaceous, the continent was split in half by an inland sea.
From New York Times • Jun. 20, 2024
They take the total number of monotreme species known to have once lived at Lightning Ridge - which was in ancient times a cold, wet forest bordering a vast inland sea - to six.
From BBC • May 27, 2024
Before the inland sea the valley must have been a forest.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
