How to Use seafaring in a Sentence

seafaring

noun
  • He began a life of seafaring.
  • Attempts by ships to hide their tracks are as old as seafaring.
    — Anatoly Kurmanaev, New York Times, 3 Sep. 2022
  • For his role as the young seafaring prince, to actor had to get in shape.
    — Jessica Wang, EW.com, 4 June 2023
  • The key to making seafaring staples feel fresh rather than costume-y lies in thoughtful styling.
    — Christina Holevas, Vogue, 30 May 2025
  • There's an old seafaring superstition that says women are bad luck at sea.
    — Hannah Sampson, chicagotribune.com, 3 Dec. 2019
  • Since at least the Bronze Age, seafaring has been key to cultural progress.
    — Eric A Powell, Discover Magazine, 28 June 2012
  • Long gone are the romanticized days when the seafaring life was a ticket to travel the world.
    — Brendan Murray, Bloomberg.com, 23 Nov. 2022
  • That’s what happens when you’re named the captain of a listing ship; your first job is to get it back into seafaring shape.
    — John Shipley, Twin Cities, 23 Jan. 2026
  • All while the two risk danger at the hands of an enemy from Morgan's seafaring days.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 22 Feb. 2023
  • Set sail for a stylish bash by topping your confection with this classic seafaring motif.
    — Jessica Leigh Hester, Country Living, 18 June 2014
  • These seafaring vessels carry just a few dozen passengers and a small but capable crew.
    — Allison Tibaldi, USA Today, 18 Apr. 2026
  • The paintings and sculptures loosely evoke seafaring imagery, with rising wave shapes and a sense of swirling movement.
    — Deborah Solomon, New York Times, 5 May 2024
  • The seafaring town’s history lies in salt cod, but recent years have brought the excitement onshore.
    — Lacy Morris, Vogue, 12 Sep. 2017
  • Newport, for all of its seafaring history, has lacked a French approach to seafood until now.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 May 2026
  • Orbiting astronauts can see roads across deserts, for example, and the wakes of seafaring ships.
    — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 9 Aug. 2024
  • Once secured on the seafaring ship, the astronauts were able to exit the Dragon.
    — Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 15 Jan. 2026
  • As befits a story about seafaring and the dank nether reaches of the mind, nautical images slosh throughout.
    — Emily Bobrow, WSJ, 28 Dec. 2018
  • The first lesson for the aspiring merchant marines is not about seafaring, but instead about where to seek shelter during an air raid.
    — Marc Santora Laetitia Vancon, New York Times, 26 Sep. 2023
  • The countdown to Four Seasons’ seafaring debut is on.
    — Nathan Diller, USA Today, 24 Sep. 2025
  • The days when a seafaring nation could rely on a blue-water fleet of major combat ships numbering less than one or two hundred hulls is over.
    — David Szondy april 20, New Atlas, 20 Apr. 2026
  • All in all, these findings suggest that the early modern humans in the area must have had a high level of strategic seafaring knowledge.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 25 June 2025
  • The pool at Foresters Hall is a welcome departure from the island's usual seafaring theme.
    — Condé Nast Traveler, 3 Jan. 2024
  • The captain of the F/V Northwestern isn't ready to say goodbye to his seafaring days.
    — Shania Russell, Entertainment Weekly, 4 June 2026
  • There’s no better way to immerse yourself in the village’s seafaring history and ambiance than with a night watchman tour.
    — Sandra MacGregor, Forbes, 6 Nov. 2024
  • In the midst of Driver's retirement from seafaring, the Civil War broke out.
    — Josh Axelrod and Saeed Ahmed, CNN, 14 June 2018
  • Now a new study suggests some seafaring people may have evolved over thousands of years to push the limits of typical dive responses even further.
    — Angus Chen, Scientific American, 19 Apr. 2018
  • The seafaring masterpiece sinks every other shark movie in its utter perfection.
    — Brian Truitt, USA Today, 9 Apr. 2026
  • That exoticism reflects Venice’s glory days as a seafaring empire whose trade routes linked East and West.
    — Blair Kamin, chicagotribune.com, 12 July 2019
  • The seafaring group nearly crumbled under mutiny and a perilous crash at the mouth of the Columbia River.
    — OregonLive.com, 1 Jan. 2018
  • Eddie Izzard‘s character hails from the Sifa Clan, a seafaring people who deal in tricks and secrets.
    — Christian Holub, EW.com, 31 Aug. 2019

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