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Example sentences for "ocean"

Lexicographically close words:
occurrences; occurreth; occurring; occurrit; occurs; oceangoing; oceanic; oceanica; oceanographic; oceanography
  1. The great ocean of business has many derelicts on it as a result of copying plans.

  2. The shores of the great ocean of business are strewn with wrecks which have been dashed to pieces on the rocks sailing for that false beacon light, "keep everlastingly at it brings success.

  3. The ship on the ocean seems to be standing still.

  4. Long, rosy islands seemed to drift in an ocean of molten gold.

  5. In earlier ages, the ocean must have extended to those margins and stolen the whole northern land of Lower Egypt, that gift of the Nile, as Herodotus had called it long ago.

  6. Through mist and shade and stormy weather, That night we went to the icy Pole, And there on the rocks we stood together, And saw the ocean before us roll.

  7. But now another charm came o'er me: The ocean I had never seen; Yet suddenly it rolled before me, With all its crested waves of green!

  8. The ocean shook to its oozy bed, As the swelling sound to the canopy went, And the splintered fires like meteors shed Their light o'er the tossing element.

  9. And mercy gilds with stars the night; Sweet music plays through weeping willows; The blackest cave with gems is bright, And pearls illume the ocean billows.

  10. At the foot of Montmartre an ocean of slate roofs lies in motionless blue billows; at Ingouville the sea is like the same roofs stirred by the wind.

  11. Also an English lady, Mrs. Ellena Low, who had been arrested at Boston, with her son, who had crossed the ocean bearing a commission in the Confederate army.

  12. The assemblage had seemed to him like a human ocean in a tempest.

  13. Although situated not over 154 miles from Copalis, on the ocean at the western edge or furthest limit of the temperate humid coast country, the summers are hot and dry and the winters severe.

  14. There wouldn't be any excuse for that with the whole broad ocean to maneuver in," commented Bob.

  15. Brilliant sunlight beat down on the yellow sand, but its heat was very different from the torrid rays that had kept them running to the ocean to cool off all that summer.

  16. I want to price variable condensers like the one Doctor Dale brought us at Ocean Point last summer, too.

  17. This was their last week at Ocean Point, for the fall term of the high school started the following Monday, and they were to leave Ocean Point on Saturday.

  18. Jimmy, excitedly, "Larry has picked up a lot of new stuff since he was at Ocean Point.

  19. I'll bet there aren't many of them have had the fun that we've had ever since we landed at Ocean Point.

  20. Bob Layton, a tall stalwart lad of fifteen, as he stretched himself out luxuriously on the warm sands of the beach at Ocean Point and pulled his cap a little further over his eyes to keep out the rays of the sun.

  21. I hadn't any idea she was down here when I decided to spend a couple of weeks at Ocean Point, but you can imagine how surprised and delighted I was to find that she and her folks were stopping at the same hotel I had picked out.

  22. It used to get pretty bad sometimes at Ocean Point last summer," observed Bob.

  23. This they carried out at Ocean Point, a seashore resort, at which they spent their vacation.

  24. School isn't so bad after you once get started, but I hate to think of settling down to the old grind after that wonderful summer at Ocean Point.

  25. I was just beginning to work up a little speed while we were at Ocean Point, but now I suppose I'm getting rusty again.

  26. And one day he beheld the sky to grow dark, and the ocean to be perturbed and shaken with a strong wind.

  27. Forthwith the wind surceased, the ocean became silent, the tempest is appeased, and a great calm is made.

  28. Infinite ocean of similitudes and analogies Insanity Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked Intellectual companions can be found easily Is this the mighty occan?

  29. Infinite ocean of similitudes and analogies Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked Insanity Intellectual companions can be found easily Is this the mighty occan?

  30. Two years passed and a third district sought across the ocean for its title Leominster.

  31. They leave their native shores behind, And seize the favour of the wind, Till God command, and tempests rise That heave the ocean to the skies.

  32. Let earth and ocean know They owe their Maker praise; Praise him, ye watery worlds below, And monsters of the seas.

  33. The world's foundations by his hand Are pois'd, and shall for ever stand; He binds the ocean in his chain, Lest it should drown the earth again.

  34. O Britain, praise thy mighty God, And make his honours known abroad, He bid the ocean round thee flow; Not bars of brass could guard thee so.

  35. Loud may the troubled ocean roar, In sacred peace our souls abide, While every nation, every shore, Trembles, and dreads the swelling tide.

  36. I could survey the ocean o'er, And count each sand that makes the shore, Before my swiftest thoughts could trace The numerous wonders of thy grace.

  37. The Lord proclaims his power aloud Over the ocean and the land; His voice divides the watery cloud, And lightnings blaze at his command.

  38. Sing to the Lord with joyful voice; Let every land his name adore; The British isles shall send the noise Across the ocean to the shore.

  39. Fortunately the depths of the human ocean lie beneath this gilded scum.

  40. The breeze was soft and balmy, and the ocean a deep, crystal blue, of a hue never seen except in these southern latitudes.

  41. With it and our knives we soon cleared away the vegetable growths, and behold, we stood on the side of the mountain a few yards from the mouth of cave, overlooking the ocean to the eastward.

  42. The Sargasso weed is a genus by itself, which, thrust away to the south by the mighty ocean currents, lies in a vast central pool, a great eddy between the Gulf Stream and the Equatorial current; and here it revolves.

  43. It is ocean born, and long ages have passed since it lost its habit of growing on the rocky sea-bottom.

  44. Even the torments of thirst, for the contents of their pocket flasks were as a mere drop to the ocean in the torrid, focussed heat now pouring down into this iron-bound hollow, they hardly felt.

  45. The cool night wind fanned his brow--the single strip of radiant stars seemed to dance in one dazzling ocean of light.

  46. Once lose them, we are like a man in mid-ocean with oars but no sail.

  47. The thought of an ocean voyage, of the new life amid tropic splendours, excited his imagination all the more because it blended with the thought of recovered freedom.

  48. Do you think of starting a new line of ocean steamships?

  49. The shell-fish call us 'The Ocean Gossips.

  50. All the animals from here to the Indian Ocean are talking about this wonderful man, and how he can cure any kind of sickness, and how kind he is--the only man in the whole world who can talk the language of the animals!

  51. Now Greenland drops behind again, And I sail the ocean Blue.

  52. Who ever heard of finding a man in the middle of the ocean just by smell!

  53. And though blood dye that ocean track, America will not turn back.

  54. Up, up to the clouds where their hoary Crowned heads melt away in the skies, The beautiful mountains of glory Each side of the song ocean rise.

  55. Only the sun in a white heat glowing Over an ocean of great content.

  56. Go, dive in the vast ocean of thy mind, O man!

  57. The sands upon the ocean side That change about with every tide, And never true to one abide, A woman's love I liken to.

  58. Bright birds from all climes and all regions That sing the whole glad summer long, Are dumb, till they flock here in legions And lave in the ocean of song.

  59. Of emerald beauty, dark as ocean dyes, Looked from the canvas: and my buried pain Rose from its grave, and stood by me alive.

  60. With this favorable a sail-boat would usually cross the ocean in six or seven weeks,[217] but in a voyage of such a distance it was practically certain that there would be stormy weather sometime before the other side was reached.

  61. Of the trials and the hardships of the ocean voyage in the thirties, forties and fifties, we can to-day have no conception.

  62. They were eleven weeks on the ocean before reaching New York.

  63. Erik Ingebretsen came over June twenty-second, 1750, via Dover, having been on the ocean six weeks, a remarkably short passage for that time.

  64. But the additional toll inland frequently made the inland journey much more expensive than was the ocean voyage.

  65. They saw before them an ocean of waving grass and blooming flowers, and realized the idea of having found the real Canaan--the real paradise of the world.

  66. He says: In the days of the sail-ship a voyage across the Atlantic Ocean was more of an undertaking than a journey around the world now.

  67. In American money, of which less than half for the ocean voyage.

  68. The Brock ship" took eight weeks for the journey, while Kong Sverre was on the ocean twelve weeks.

  69. But then letters came with good news from America, and my relatives as well as other acquaintances on this side of the ocean were encouraged to emigrate.

  70. OVER THE OCEAN TO PARIS; or Ted Scott's daring long distance flight.

  71. Drink the first drop that can intoxicate, and your feet stand at the very brink of the ocean of intemperance.

  72. The formless waves that in the atmosphere ripple and dash against the cheek, tell of a restless ocean around us, a medium of health and sound.

  73. The accommodation for passengers is probably the most perfect that has yet been provided on an ocean steamer, for here the experience of all previous developments has been utilised.

  74. It is said that the Royal William convinced him that steam was the coming force for ocean navigation.

  75. It is computed that on the great ocean highways there are not fewer than ten thousand large and highly-powered steamers constantly employed.

  76. The cotton then passes into the hands of the shipping agent, who brands it, and forwards it by river-steamer to one of the Southern ports, or by rail to New York or Boston, where it is put on board an ocean steamer for Europe.

  77. We need not suppose, however, that the idea of big ocean steamers has been the monopoly of this country.

  78. And even now the goods traffic between the Mediterranean and the United Kingdom, North Europe and America, is less in the hands of these great lines than in that of the vast fleets of ocean tramps, both sail and steam.

  79. Later on, when the Americans had completed their iron-roads from ocean to ocean across their own dominions, they started lines of steamers from San Francisco to China and Japan.

  80. Contemporary records usually afford good evidence of the significance of past events, and the interest in this novel ocean match was prodigious, to judge from the accounts with which the Liverpool and New York papers of the day teemed.

  81. These are known as 'ocean placers' or 'beach diggings,' and are of minor importance.

  82. The beautiful American clippers with which some of us were familiar in the days of our youth are no longer to be seen; they have been run off the face of the waters by the 'ocean liner' and the 'tramp.

  83. From this time ocean steamers multiplied rapidly.

  84. In 1776, when he was appointed embassador of the revolted colonies to the French king, the ocean swarmed with British cruisers, General Washington had lost New York, and the prospects of the Revolution were gloomy in the extreme.

  85. He did not flow as a mighty Gulf Stream; he did not dash upon this continent as the ocean does; he was not a mighty rushing river.

  86. Why will you go sounding your way amidst the reefs and warning buoys, when there is such a vast ocean in which you may voyage, all sail set?

  87. Our railways would have been unbuilt, and the Atlantic Ocean would have been unbridged by steam.

  88. That I'm off as the day is breaking To row o'er the ocean foam.

  89. It was on one of these evenings that the surface of the broad ocean spread before the eye was unshadowed by the clouds, and the Isle of Awaji floated like foam on its face, just as it appeared to do at Suma.

  90. In the long hours of this sailing voyage across the Atlantic Ocean Darwin had time to read and ponder Lyell's weighty words.

  91. In the case of most coral islands in the Pacific Ocean the reef exists as a circle of coral enclosing a lagoon of water.

  92. To-day only the Gulf of Mexico remains as evidence of the broad stretch that once extended through to the Arctic Ocean and west beyond the present position of the Rocky Mountains.

  93. At the base of the high terraces Darwin found marine shells, largely similar to those of the ocean beach so many miles to the east.

  94. The bottom of the ocean here was sinking.

  95. The underlying ground has surely been there longest, its age vying only with that of the bounding ocean that beats upon the shore and works the sand into fantastic stretches.

  96. We young people, to whom the future belongs, must have the courage to found a true democracy, and we will have to look beyond the ocean to learn how a people who have made themselves free can preserve their freedom.

  97. Seven millions arrived a little later, brought by the Astree, which had crossed the ocean in sixty-seven days, without mishap.


  98. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ocean" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abundance; acres; barrel; deep; drink; flood; hydrosphere; load; main; mass; mountain; much; multitude; ocean; oceanic; peck; plenitude; plenty; profusion; quantity; sea; spate; superabundance; superfluity; tide; tons; volume; world


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    ocean currents; oceanic island; oceanic islands