How to Use high sea in a Sentence

high sea

noun
  • Ready to break your lease and start the new year on the high seas?
    Stefanie Waldek, Travel + Leisure, 8 Oct. 2024
  • The high seas make up 61% of the ocean, and 73% of its volume.
    Shailene Woodley, Time, 4 Sep. 2019
  • There’s now a place on the high seas for the new nomad.
    Mark Ellwood, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 June 2019
  • The need to adapt to higher seas is now a fact of life.
    The Economist, 15 Aug. 2019
  • The Bunker Hill’s crew is considered to be one of the best on the high seas.
    Carl Prine, sandiegouniontribune.com, 6 Oct. 2017
  • Here are nine of our favorite places to work on the high seas.
    Gemma Harris, Robb Report, 22 Feb. 2024
  • Want to sail the high seas with your favorite HGTV twins?
    Jennifer Aldrich, Country Living, 23 Apr. 2018
  • So, just you and the high seas with nothing in between them.
    Vinod Sreeharsha, Miami Herald, 2 May 2024
  • The high seas are sometimes called the world’s last true wilderness.
    Laura Paddison, CNN, 4 Mar. 2023
  • The refugee boat that capsized went over in driving wind and rain and high seas.
    NBC News, 29 Sep. 2017
  • Disney Cruise Line’s new ship will bring the magic of its theme parks to the high seas for the first time.
    Nathan Diller, USA TODAY, 6 Sep. 2023
  • The Army fixed it and tried again, only to have to remove the pier from the coast two more times due to high sea states.
    Anne Flaherty, ABC News, 20 July 2024
  • The scions of two of the world’s wealthiest families fell in love on the high seas.
    Meryl Gordon, Town & Country, 7 Nov. 2019
  • Fishing was good before the big seas rolled in and tough while the high seas prevailed.
    sacbee, 24 Oct. 2017
  • Call him the luckiest cruise ship worker on the high seas.
    USA TODAY, 2 July 2018
  • From the open road to the high seas, Austin Butler is eyeing his next starring role.
    Glenn Garner, Deadline, 15 June 2024
  • Only the tiny oval is long gone, swallowed with a clump of sweet flesh, and sailing the high seas of your gut.
    Ali Francis, Bon Appétit, 22 July 2023
  • For the unversed, Riva is one of the world’s oldest, most renowned shipyards and builds some of the finest yachts on the high seas.
    Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 25 Aug. 2023
  • British pirates seized them in a raid on the high seas while searching for gold and silver.
    Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 31 July 2019
  • And the right of a country to operate on the high seas includes the freedom of overflight.
    Ashley S. Deeks, The Conversation, 15 Mar. 2023
  • Kris Jenner shared a dispatch from her starry day on the high seas!
    Henry Chandonnet, Peoplemag, 11 July 2023
  • Here, Seakeeper’s gyro serves to keep things steady on the high seas.
    Jack Stewart, WIRED, 21 May 2018
  • From that point airpower could reach anywhere on the high seas.
    David Hambling, Forbes, 17 Sep. 2024
  • There’s no word yet on what cruisers might expect for their vaginas on the high seas.
    Tanya Edwards, refinery29.com, 13 Jan. 2020
  • The track's bombast came through loud and clear, and its arena-worthy guitar swells held their own on the high seas.
    Chris Payne, Billboard, 28 Jan. 2018
  • The Oregon coast continues to see high sea levels for the early part of this week.
    oregonlive, 15 Dec. 2020
  • But the biggest issue now seems to be that nobody knows the scale of the problem or which parts of the high seas are affected.
    Steven Lee Myers and Javier C. HernÁndez, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2018
  • Still, the cat-and-mouse game that smugglers and sanctions enforcers have long played on the high seas isn’t likely to come to an abrupt end soon.
    Benoit Faucon, WSJ, 1 Nov. 2018
  • Civil forfeiture was used, among other things, to seize ships to pay customs duties and fight piracy on the high seas.
    Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes, 19 Oct. 2024
  • The Danish audio brand has teamed up with Italian shipyard Riva on two new speakers designed for the high seas.
    Tori Latham, Robb Report, 24 Oct. 2024

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