plying
Example Sentences
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Navy could escort ships through the strait, and he has ordered an arm of the federal government to offer insurance to shipping lines plying those waters.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 8, 2026
Iran has neither openly targeted energy facilities across the Middle East nor have they openly targeted oil tankers plying the region, they say.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 2, 2026
Portugal great Cristiano Ronaldo once again topped the Forbes highest-paid footballers list for the 2025-26 season, as one of three members of the top 10 plying their trade in Saudi Arabia.
From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2025
Ridley Scott’s first foray into this world operates like a claustrophobic thriller, plying stretches of unsettling quiet with jump scares within a labyrinth of sweating pipes, sweaty humans and darkness.
From Salon ● Jul. 4, 2025
He'd been plying the narrow sea for thirty years, he'd told her, as oarman, quartermaster, and finally cap-tain of his own trading galleys.
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
