Get to know Sea better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like land or air. In Dutch this translates to zee.
Sea in a sentence
Related words
Sea meaning
- A large body of salt water.
- The ocean; the continuous body of salt water covering a majority of the Earth's surface.
Synonyms of Sea
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Using Sea
- The main meaning on this page is: A large body of salt water. | A large body of salt water. | The ocean; the continuous body of salt water covering a majority of the Earth's surface.
- Useful related words include: deep-sea, body of water, land, air.
- Possible Dutch translations are: zee.
- In the example corpus, sea often appears in combinations such as: the sea, sea and, black sea.
Context around Sea
- Average sentence length in these examples: 34.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 9 start, 11 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Sea
- In this selection, "sea" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 34.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, black, steller, inland, ice, turtles and cucumbers stand out and add context to how "sea" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a black sea power from, amount of sea ice is, black sea, red sea and sea ice. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "sea" sits close to words such as anti, beyond and helped, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with sea
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The vessels would be covering the Red Sea, Arabian Sea, Gulf of Aden, and connected sea lanes. (17 words)
Antarctic sea ice cycles seasonally, in February–March the amount of sea ice is lowest, and in August–September the sea ice is at its greatest extent. (27 words)
He’s also charged with selling sea horses and sea cucumbers that were illegally imported from Mexico and purchasing a shell of the critically endangered hawksbill sea turtle. (28 words)
As with non-Black Seas powers, the Montreux convention does not explicitly forbid a Black Sea power from transiting aircraft carriers through the straits, and the tonnage limits in Article 14 also apply to Black Sea powers as well as non-Black Sea powers. (44 words)
Etymology and taxonomy seeAlso The word "dugong" derives from the Tagalog term dugong which was in turn adopted from the Malay duyung, both meaning "lady of the sea". citation Other common local names include "sea cow", "sea pig" and "sea camel". (41 words)
To do that, she’ll have to get off the barren island she’s forbidden to leave, cross the dangerous Verdant Sea, the even more dangerous Crimson Sea, and the totally deadly Midnight Sea, and somehow defeat the unbeatable Sorceress. (40 words)
Example sentences (20)
In this image taken Thursday Feb. 9, 2012, A tourist climbs onto the frozen IJsselmeer inland sea on Afsluitdijk, a dike closing off the Wadden sea and North Sea from IJsselmeer inland sea, northern Netherlands.
Compared with freshwater turtles, sea turtles have very limited mobility on land, and apart from the dash from the nest to the sea as hatchlings, male sea turtles normally never leave the sea.
Etymology and taxonomy seeAlso The word "dugong" derives from the Tagalog term dugong which was in turn adopted from the Malay duyung, both meaning "lady of the sea". citation Other common local names include "sea cow", "sea pig" and "sea camel".
While almost all echinoderms are benthic — that is, they live on the sea floor — some sea-lilies can swim at great velocity for brief periods of time, and a few deep-sea sea cucumbers are fully floating.
He’s also charged with selling sea horses and sea cucumbers that were illegally imported from Mexico and purchasing a shell of the critically endangered hawksbill sea turtle.
The Greek goddess was the daughter of Thaumas, whose name means “miracle” or “wonder” in Greek, an old and powerful sea god who was linked to the wonders of the sea, and Elektra, a sea-dwelling nymph.
To do that, she’ll have to get off the barren island she’s forbidden to leave, cross the dangerous Verdant Sea, the even more dangerous Crimson Sea, and the totally deadly Midnight Sea, and somehow defeat the unbeatable Sorceress.
The vessels would be covering the Red Sea, Arabian Sea, Gulf of Aden, and connected sea lanes.
In 2015 Sea Wings were deployed in the East China Sea, South China Sea and other waters of the western Pacific to complete observations of ocean phenomena including the Kuroshio Ocean Dynamic Processes spindle, eddies, and Nanhai Xi boundary flow.
The northeast monsoon, or winter monsoon, blows from land to sea, whereas south-west monsoon, or summer monsoon, blows from sea to land after crossing the Indian Ocean, Arabian Sea, and Bay of Bengal.
The Pacific Arctic region, including the Chukchi Sea, was previously known to have experienced a significant reduction of summer sea ice and this new study has demonstrated one mechanism of how sea ice formation can be delayed.
Big-ticket items fitted on Lancaster are a new Artisan 3D radar and vastly-improved air-defence capabilities provided by Sea Ceptor, replacing Sea Wolf missiles which only possess about half the Sea Ceptors range.
Article 69 of the Law of the Sea convention states that Nepal could both use sea as a trading route and exploit the exclusive economic zone of its sea facing neighbors.
In the final segment, Foggo discussed the Black Sea Conference held in Naples, Italy, where Black Sea allies and partner nations came together to discuss the challenges and solutions in creating a stable and secure region in the Black Sea.
All parkas were decorated with bird feathers, beard bristles of seal and sea-lion, beaks of sea parrots, bird claws, sea otter fur, dyed leather, and caribou hair sewn in the seams.
Antarctic sea ice cycles seasonally, in February–March the amount of sea ice is lowest, and in August–September the sea ice is at its greatest extent.
As with non-Black Seas powers, the Montreux convention does not explicitly forbid a Black Sea power from transiting aircraft carriers through the straits, and the tonnage limits in Article 14 also apply to Black Sea powers as well as non-Black Sea powers.
Geology Satellite image of the Andaman Sea showing the green algae and silt deposits due to the Irrawaddy River in its northern part Topography of the Andaman Sea area The average depth of the sea is about convert.
Interactions with humans Steller sea lions haul out on Amak Island Steller sea lions near Vancouver Island Steller sea lion were hunted for meat and other commodities by prehistoric communities everywhere their range intersected with human communities.
In the south, it reaches its lowest level at the Dead Sea (more than 400 meters below sea level), rising in the north to just above sea level.
Phrases with sea
These phrases have their own page with example sentences containing the full combination:
Common combinations with sea
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the sea 81×
- sea and 32×
- black sea 25×
- at sea 18×
- red sea 16×
- china sea 15×
- sea ice 15×
- sea level 14×
- and sea 13×
- of sea 13×