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.
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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Meanings and Examples of OCEAN
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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.
2 He suggested the ocean beach, a tennis court, anything but the sun-blistered utility of Main Street.
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.
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.
5 Just so with whaling, which necessitates a three-years' housekeeping upon the wide ocean, far from all grocers, costermongers, doctors, bakers, and bankers.
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.
7 This chart divides the ocean into districts.
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.
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.
10 That same ocean rolls now; that same ocean destroyed the wrecked ships of last year.
11 Panting and snorting like a mad battle steed that has lost its rider, the masterless ocean overruns the globe.
12 Thereby, the whale commanders are enabled to recognise each other upon the ocean, even at considerable distances and with no small facility.
13 In three minutes, a whole mile of shoreless ocean was between Pip and Stubb.
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.
15 We were clear from the carcase; sail had been made; the wind was freshening; the wild ocean darkness was intense.
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.