sea story
Example Sentences
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“In my years in the Navy, it wouldn’t be a sea story if there wasn’t some embellishment,” Hung Cao, acting Navy Secretary, said at the time.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
“How did that happen? … There’s a great sea story there that we’ll never know.”
From Washington Post ● Nov. 10, 2020
But there was no better sea story in Rio than Santiago Lange of Argentina.
From New York Times ● Aug. 22, 2016
Mystery stories shlock-style had a white strip, but the librarian would never file Chandler or Highsmith under mystery – they were literature, just as Moby-Dick was not a sea story and was not romance.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 23, 2012
Mr. Clark Russell is one of those writers who have set themselves to revive the British sea story in all its glorious excitement.
From Sir Tom by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant
