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Voyage is an English word with synonyms like journey or seafaring. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.

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Voyage in a sentence

Voyage meaning

  1. A long journey, especially by ship.
  2. A written account of a journey or travel.
  3. The act or practice of travelling.

Synonyms of Voyage

journey ocean trip water travel seafaring journeying sail navigate travel

Using Voyage

  • The main meaning on this page is: A long journey, especially by ship. | A written account of a journey or travel. | The act or practice of travelling.
  • Useful related words include: journey, ocean trip, water travel, seafaring.
  • In the example corpus, voyage often appears in combinations such as: the voyage, voyage to, maiden voyage.

Context around Voyage

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 26.4 words
  • Position in the sentence: 5 start, 12 middle, 3 end
  • Sentence types: 19 statements, 0 questions, 1 exclamations

Corpus analysis for Voyage

  • In this selection, "voyage" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 26.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, first, last, maiden, planned, vespucci and played stand out and add context to how "voyage" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include 10 day voyage around the and a whaling voyage. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "voyage" sits close to words such as heather, overweight and promotes, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with voyage

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

All aboard for the big trek to nowhere, but ‘Bon Voyage’ just the same! (14 words)

And it was like the first voyage that we took that we didn’t find our destination. (17 words)

Barbie is sent on her voyage by McKinnon’s character in the film, played by Margot Robbie. (17 words)

As designed, the Starship rocket is nearly two times more powerful than Nasa's own Space Launch System (SLS), which made its debut uncrewed flight to orbit in November, sending a Nasa cruise vessel called Orion on a 10-day voyage around the moon and back. (46 words)

Beyond looking forward to a “Listening to Hawaii,” I really look forward to the morning, perhaps at the conclusion of the Moananuiakea voyage, when Hokule’a can once again sail into a famed port city rebuilt better and stronger from the ashes. (42 words)

Banks even attempted to take command of Cook's second voyage, but removed himself from the voyage before it began, and Johann Reinhold Forster and his son Georg Forster were taken on as scientists for the voyage. (37 words)

All aboard for the big trek to nowhere, but ‘Bon Voyage’ just the same! (14 words)

Example sentences (20)

Banks even attempted to take command of Cook's second voyage, but removed himself from the voyage before it began, and Johann Reinhold Forster and his son Georg Forster were taken on as scientists for the voyage.

The maiden voyage, planned for 2019, is promoted as a "voyage of initiation", with naturalists and speciality lecturers on board.

Before the mystery was solved the revolutionary French government had published the records of the voyage as far as Kamchatka: Voyage De La Pérouse Autour du Monde, 1–4 (Paris, 1797).

His posthumous ex-son-in-law Martin Scorsese has also acknowledged Rossellini's seminal influence in his documentary, My Voyage to Italy (the title itself a take on Rossellini's Voyage to Italy ).

Like his alleged first voyage, Vespucci's last voyage in 1503–1504 is also disputed to have taken place.

On the second voyage a young naturalist named Charles Darwin was on board; the pivotal role this round the world voyage played in forming his scientific theories made Beagle one of the most famous ships in history.

Passage planning or voyage planning is a procedure to develop a complete description of vessel's voyage from start to finish.

Plot seeAlso Voyage of the Pequod (illustrated by Everett Henry) Ishmael travels in December from Manhattan Island to New Bedford with plans to sign up for a whaling voyage.

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After three successful films, the original crew set out on their final voyage together in the franchise during the events of Star Trek: Nemesis.

Alan Estrada said the battery of OceanGate’s Titan submersible drained mid-voyage, forcing the vessel to return to save the lives of its passengers.

All aboard for the big trek to nowhere, but ‘Bon Voyage’ just the same!

Almost exactly 111 years ago, the Titanic sank after hitting an iceberg during its first voyage, resulting in more than 1,500 deaths.

And it was like the first voyage that we took that we didn’t find our destination.

An MSC-chartered cargo ship and tanker have made the challenging voyage to Antarctica every year since the station and its resupply mission were established in 1955.

As Aditya-L1 begins its 1.5-m-km voyage towards the Sun, two Hyderabad-based companies waited with bated breath.

As designed, the Starship rocket is nearly two times more powerful than Nasa's own Space Launch System (SLS), which made its debut uncrewed flight to orbit in November, sending a Nasa cruise vessel called Orion on a 10-day voyage around the moon and back.

A terrifying chapter from Bram Stoker’s novel comes to life in the first trailer for The Last Voyage of the Demeter.

Barbie is sent on her voyage by McKinnon’s character in the film, played by Margot Robbie.

Beyond looking forward to a “Listening to Hawaii,” I really look forward to the morning, perhaps at the conclusion of the Moananuiakea voyage, when Hokule’a can once again sail into a famed port city rebuilt better and stronger from the ashes.

Billed as a new alternative to scattering ashes at sea, Bluewater Voyage, puts remains in a seafaring buoy that can be tracked.

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Common combinations with voyage

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "voyage" in a sentence?
An example: "Banks even attempted to take command of Cook's second voyage, but removed himself from the voyage before it began, and Johann Reinhold Forster and his son Georg Forster were taken on as scientists for the voyage." This page contains 10+ example sentences with the word "voyage" from authentic English texts.
What does "voyage" mean?
Voyage means: A long journey, especially by ship.
What are synonyms of "voyage"?
Common synonyms of "voyage" include: journey, ocean trip, water travel, seafaring, journeying, sail, navigate, travel.
How many example sentences with "voyage" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains at least 10+ example sentences with "voyage", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.