sea room

Example Sentences

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“All right, maybe, if we had sea room. But what do we know about where we are now?”

From Literature

They were blown here, and fought in vain for sea room; the ships kept going in to their destruction, slammed on the reef.

From Literature

It added, “the selection of a near coastal route provided inadequate sea room to allow time for response actions to take place before being set onto Albatross Bank and into the more dangerous shallower waters.”

From Washington Post

I wish we'd a good frigate under us and plenty o' sea room.

From Project Gutenberg

Given a trim ship and plenty of sea room, and it isn’t all the wind that can blow that will succeed in lowering the spirits of the British sailor.

From Project Gutenberg