oceangoing
Example Sentences
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Beijing’s next-generation submarines will be designed as oceangoing vessels that can maintain a “persistent presence” beyond China’s peripheral waters, Brookes said in his statement.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 3, 2026
“We do not know if the ship was oceangoing, meaning that it crossed over the North Sea to England,” Dr. Grønnesby said.
From New York Times • May 31, 2024
She later remarried the captain of an oceangoing ship and immigrated to the United States in 1961.
From Slate • Mar. 16, 2024
Salmon and oceangoing trout were severed from these pristine reaches of the river.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 26, 2023
The most isolated people on Earth in recent history were the Aboriginal Tasmanians, living without oceangoing watercraft on an island 100 miles from Australia, itself the most isolated continent.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
