How to Use the open sea in a Sentence

the open sea

noun
  • In the open sea, the engines roared to life and the boat gathered speed.
    — Greg Jackson, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2024
  • The fjord is key for fishing in the autumn, when the open sea is too harsh.
    — Discover Magazine, 16 Feb. 2024
  • The waves scoured the walls of the fjord before flowing into the open sea.
    — Robin George Andrews, Quanta Magazine, 12 Sep. 2024
  • Winds on the open sea are often brutal, scuttling work for days at a time.
    — Robin Catalano, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 June 2024
  • The sheer mass of these shelves stops the ice on land from flowing more quickly into the open sea.
    — Raymond Zhong, New York Times, 23 Oct. 2023
  • To the south is the open sea, home of a goddess who looms large in local mythology.
    — Scott Mowbray Amrita Chandradas, New York Times, 20 Jan. 2025
  • Adrenaline seekers won’t want to miss the thrill of free diving in the open sea.
    — Lindsay Cohn, Travel + Leisure, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Its west-northwest outlook across the open sea is excellent.
    — Jamie Carter, Space.com, 7 June 2026
  • It was captured on the open sea by French pirates, who brought the ship to a prison island.
    — Kerry J. Byrne Fox News, Fox News, 18 Nov. 2022
  • What makes the shore unique here is not just the color, but the contrast of wild jungle facing the open sea.
    — Gina Góngora, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Mar. 2026
  • To one side, views of the open sea—and potential attacks by enemy forces.
    — Selina Denman, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Nov. 2024
  • The best salmon fishing along the Oregon coast is in the open sea outside a few harbors.
    — Orval C. Johnson, Outdoor Life, 31 Oct. 2024
  • Ships can't really go in reverse, so those tugboats can help pull them out and orient them toward the open sea.
    — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 28 Mar. 2024
  • The boat continued forward without him, leaving him stranded in the open sea.
    — Virginia Chamlee, PEOPLE, 8 May 2026
  • In the clip, a staff member can be seen looking out towards the open sea as Shipley walks along the railing.
    — Natalia Senanayake, People.com, 2 Apr. 2025
  • Boats struggle to access the open sea from the river and often get bogged down, while fish can’t travel up the river to spawn.
    — Photovogue, Vogue, 19 Nov. 2024
  • One simulated moving through the open sea, with dots streaming towards the viewer out of the screen.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 29 May 2025
  • By Friday, most of the phalaropes had returned to the open sea to continue their migration.
    — Isabela Rocha, BostonGlobe.com, 6 May 2023
  • Other species living in the open sea are more specialized and attach to cetaceans, swordfish, or marlins.
    — Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 9 Aug. 2025
  • More than seven miles long and up to half a mile wide, the Kniepsand sandbank that faces the open sea shifts slightly every year.
    — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Jan. 2026
  • But without the confinement of a channel, rogue waves usually won’t follow those physics or form the same way in the open sea.
    — Francesco Fedele, The Conversation, 12 Aug. 2025
  • She's believed to have flown more than 3 million miles over the open sea — enough distance to fly from the Earth to the moon and back six times.
    — Bill Chappell, NPR, 6 Dec. 2024
  • The Alabama followed the Kearsarge out to the open sea and opened fire with two initial salvos, missing both times.
    — James Hagengruber, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 June 2023
  • The Russian crew is trying to fix the problem and is drifting in the open sea near Portugal.
    — Andy Biggs, Newsweek, 24 Dec. 2024
  • This new batch of Jefferson’s Bourbon might just make its way onto the open sea in the ensuing months.
    — Brad Japhe, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2024
  • That’s because the ship malfunctions almost always occur in the open sea, where crews can deal with them without incident.
    — Rich Schapiro, NBC News, 30 Mar. 2024
  • Visitors can take a long, slow pleasure cruise along the fjord and see a wide array of sights including glaciers, mountains, and the open sea — all in just a two-hour trip.
    — Andrea Romano, Travel + Leisure, 20 June 2023
  • Most people who find themselves on Frying Pan are infatuated with the open sea.
    — Graham Averill, Outside Online, 11 Sep. 2024
  • However, the impact in shallow waters would've been significantly less than on the open sea.
    — Cristian Benavides, CBS News, 13 Apr. 2026
  • The captain wears a grey fisherman's hat and trench coat, both covered in creeping green algae from an afterlife spent wandering the open sea.
    — Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA TODAY, 24 July 2024

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