OCEAN in a Sentence

Learn OCEAN from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
126 example sentences for OCEAN, such as:
1. A great stretch of ocean lay beneath them.
2. This chart divides the ocean into districts.
3. One afternoon, she went for a swim in the ocean.
4. The sun's heat vaporizes the water of the ocean.
5. The frog in well knows nothing of the great ocean.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of OCEAN
ocean
 n.  anything apparently limitless in quantity or volume
 n.  a large body of water constituting a principal part of the hydrosphere
Classic Sentence: (95 in 7 pages)
1  Ray said that he would like to see the ocean; it must be a grand sight; it must be much grander than a lake, even a great big lake.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
2  He suggested the ocean beach, a tennis court, anything but the sun-blistered utility of Main Street.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
3  If they but knew it, almost all men in their degree, some time or other, cherish very nearly the same feelings towards the ocean with me.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 1. Loomings.
4  Going forward and glancing over the weather bow, I perceived that the ship swinging to her anchor with the flood-tide, was now obliquely pointing towards the open ocean.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 16. The Ship.
5  Just so with whaling, which necessitates a three-years' housekeeping upon the wide ocean, far from all grocers, costermongers, doctors, bakers, and bankers.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 20. All Astir.
6  It was a short, cold Christmas; and as the short northern day merged into night, we found ourselves almost broad upon the wintry ocean, whose freezing spray cased us in ice, as in polished armor.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 22. Merry Christmas.
7  This chart divides the ocean into districts.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 44. The Chart.
8  By night the same muteness of humanity before the shrieks of the ocean prevailed; still in silence the men swung in the bowlines; still wordless Ahab stood up to the blast.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 51. The Spirit-Spout.
9  The first boat we read of, floated on an ocean, that with Portuguese vengeance had whelmed a whole world without leaving so much as a widow.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 58. Brit.
10  That same ocean rolls now; that same ocean destroyed the wrecked ships of last year.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 58. Brit.
11  Panting and snorting like a mad battle steed that has lost its rider, the masterless ocean overruns the globe.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 58. Brit.
12  Thereby, the whale commanders are enabled to recognise each other upon the ocean, even at considerable distances and with no small facility.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 71. The Jeroboam's Story.
13  In three minutes, a whole mile of shoreless ocean was between Pip and Stubb.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 93. The Castaway.
14  Now, in calm weather, to swim in the open ocean is as easy to the practised swimmer as to ride in a spring-carriage ashore.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 93. The Castaway.
15  We were clear from the carcase; sail had been made; the wind was freshening; the wild ocean darkness was intense.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 96. The Try-Works.
Example Sentence: (31 in 3 pages)
1  One afternoon, she went for a swim in the ocean.
2  It became impractical to make a business trip by ocean liner.
3  The frog in well knows nothing of the great ocean.
4  Hess then proceeded to describe the ocean floor as if it were a collection of giant conveyor belts.
5  His fee is a drop in the ocean compared with the real cost of broadcasting.
6  Oil spills are having a devastating effect on coral reefs in the ocean.
7  The sun's heat vaporizes the water of the ocean.
8  Ships towing huge magnets trolled the ocean floor.
9  The Huanghe River disembogues itself into the ocean.
10  A great stretch of ocean lay beneath them.
11  Think of me sometimes while Alps and ocean divide us,but they ever will,unless you wish it.
12  Thousands of gallons of crude oil were spilled into the ocean.
13  The two peaks in the distribution represent the continental platforms and the ocean basins.
14  It's the money that spurs these fishermen to risk a long ocean journey in their flimsy boats.
15  It is such a beautiful day; we saw some ships plough across the ocean under warm sun shine.