How to Use seaport in a Sentence

seaport

noun
  • Boston is a major seaport in the northeastern U.S.
  • This bustling seaport is one of the largest cities in Canada.
    — Lauren Eckert, National Geographic, 27 June 2019
  • Three seaports are open, and five are open with restrictions.
    — Jeanette Steele, sandiegouniontribune.com, 27 Sep. 2017
  • One female green turtle was struck by a ship just down the road, near the world’s ninth busiest seaport.
    — Craig Welch, National Geographic, 20 Sep. 2019
  • Some of the seaport’s new offerings will be more rarefied than the souvenir shops of old.
    — Jane Margolies, New York Times, 22 May 2018
  • Learn about the mills, the seaport, the Gold Rush and how the region fared through two world wars.
    — Scott McMurren, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Feb. 2022
  • The city hosts a seaport and an oil refinery, which was already attacked in the summer.
    — Maya Mehrara, Newsweek, 26 Feb. 2025
  • These are trucking firms that haul shipments to and from seaports and railyards—a sector known as drayage.
    — Toni Pisano, Forbes.com, 1 May 2025
  • For container shipments from overseas, the assets can even be tracked at the seaport.
    — Forbes, 7 June 2021
  • The days of wooden shipbuilding are over, but still, Benicia is a seaport.
    — Carl Nolte, San Francisco Chronicle, 23 Apr. 2021
  • Piano was born to a family of builders in the Italian seaport of Genoa.
    — Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2021
  • And a harbor that would make Caesarea the most dominant seaport in the region.
    — National Geographic, 15 Oct. 2019
  • My customers work in drayage, the sector of trucking companies that haul freight to and from our nation’s seaports.
    — Toni Pisano, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
  • The boat lift also served as a reminder that New York City was and remains a seaport.
    — John Hanc, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Sep. 2021
  • The main airport is in Bari, the region’s capital and a major seaport.
    — Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 30 May 2024
  • Women all around the seaport were getting contracts to stitch flags, and Ross surely wanted in.
    — Marla Miller, The Conversation, 23 Mar. 2026
  • New Orleans formed a natural seaport.
    — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 1 Feb. 2026
  • The crash disrupted marine traffic at the seaport, which is among the largest in the Mid-Atlantic.
    — Kevin Shalvey, ABC News, 19 May 2024
  • Russian troops launched a missile attack on the Olvia seaport in the Mykolaiv Oblast.
    — Katya Soldak, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2022
  • Drayage refers to the first leg of the supply chain—the trucking companies that move containers to and from seaports and railyards.
    — Toni Pisano, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2025
  • There are plenty of biomes packed in this map, with everything from a dojo to a seaport city to the Great Turtle's spot.
    — Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 2 Dec. 2024
  • These searches can be conducted as part of routine inspections at airports, land crossings and seaports.
    — Alice Gibbs, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Mar. 2026
  • Their new seaports, high-speed rail, entire new cities, all these illustrate their ability to build infrastructure fast.
    — Sally Adee, IEEE Spectrum, 1 July 2019
  • The explosion in Beirut hit the city's seaport and was reportedly felt 150 miles away.
    — Alexia Fernandez, PEOPLE.com, 6 Aug. 2020
  • The Golden Ray was stuck in a shipping channel, closing one of the busiest US seaports.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 10 Sep. 2019
  • Libyan seaports near Tripoli are just 180 miles from the Italian island of Lampedusa.
    — Alissa J. Rubin, New York Times, 29 May 2018
  • The protesters demand free movement in and out of Gaza, free use of the Gaza seaport, and unrestricted trade in goods.
    — Ryan Cooper, The Week, 10 Feb. 2019
  • This is the world’s biggest seaport outside Asia—25 miles, nearly twice the length of Manhattan, from end to end.
    — Vivienne Walt, Fortune, 5 Aug. 2022
  • Successful trade and busy seaports made Connecticut wealthy, increasing demand for cheap labor and the money to pay for it.
    — Calista Oetama, Hartford Courant, 22 June 2026
  • The Port of Los Angeles is known as the busiest seaport in North America.
    — Nbc News, NBC news, 22 Nov. 2025

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