seagoing
Example Sentences
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Shipping traffic remains throttled in the Strait of Hormuz, a trade route off Iran’s coast that fully a third of the world’s seagoing oil exports traverse in a normal year.
From Slate • Mar. 11, 2026
The work of running a port is a constant maintenance of channels, breakwaters, bridges, and the machinery of seagoing commerce.
From Los Angeles Times • May 24, 2025
“Our wreck suggests a seagoing exchange was conducted west out of Syria and Canaan to southern Cyprus, Crete and other Greek lands.”
From New York Times • Jun. 20, 2024
Before it was found, there were no known wrecks of seagoing ships dating from the 11th to 14th Centuries in English waters.
From BBC • Jun. 6, 2024
The stars are the friends of explorers, then with seagoing ships on Earth and now with spacefaring ships in the sky.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
