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. Don't worry we've got oceans of time.
2. This chart divides the ocean into districts.
3. You give me a drop of tears,i saw your heart all the oceans.
4. You give me a drop of t ears, I saw your heart all the oceans.
5. Their perilous journey across the ocean has attracted public attention.

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 Meanings and Examples of OCEAN
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
ocean
 n.  a very large expanse of sea
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)
16  After all, what we term posterity is but a drop of water in the ocean of Time.
17  As I already mentioned, ocean is not in thermal equilibrium with atmosphere, it is 13 degrees cooler.
18  The crew of the Southern Supporter, an Australian customs vessel, has finally arrived here in Cape Town harbor after an epic three-week chase through the treacherous southern ocean, dodging icebergs and high seas to arrest the crew of a ship caught poaching rare Patagonian tooth fish.
19  Their perilous journey across the ocean has attracted public attention.
20  The crew of the Southern Supporter has finally arrived here in Cape Town harbor after an epic three-week chase through the treacherous southern ocean.
21  These are usually of driftwood, which is brought by the ocean currents from the Yukon.
22  A seamount is a mountain rising from the ocean seafloor that does not reach to the water's surface, and thus is not an island.
23  Don't worry we've got oceans of time.
24  Drop by drop the oceans are filled; stone by stone the walls are built.
25  Man cannot discover new oceans unlehe has courage to lost sight of the shore.
26  Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has courage to lose sight of the shore.
27  You give me a drop of t ears, I saw your heart all the oceans.
28  You give me a drop of tears,i saw your heart all the oceans.
29  The oceans do not so much divide the world as unite it. (=The oceans do not divide the world so much as unite it.)
30  A group of scientists predicted that the saltiness of the waters of the oceans around South Africa could serve as an early indicator of climate change.