How to Use oceangoing in a Sentence

oceangoing

adjective

• But the lake is also the site of a major freshwater port that draws oceangoing ships from the St. Lawrence Seaway.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 June 2019
• More than half a dozen cruise lines that market to North Americans are rolling out new oceangoing ships in 2018.
  — Gene Sloan, USA TODAY, 2 Jan. 2018
• That could push oceangoing ships to compete with trucks and trains for low sulfur diesel at the same time supplies are limited.
  — Stephanie Yang, WSJ, 23 Dec. 2018
• In three months, his containment unit had brought 400 workers, three oceangoing ships and numerous barges to clean up the spill.
  — Darryl Fears, Washington Post, 1 July 2019
• Last year, 7,500 oceangoing ships and barges passed through the delta en route to river ports as far north as Minneapolis.
  — Jennifer Larino, NOLA.com, 26 Feb. 2018
• With a fast-growing economy and straddling oceangoing trade routes to much of Asia, Malaysia could be a crucial partner to any effort to isolate North Korea.
  — Ben Otto, WSJ, 10 Sep. 2017
• How can two oceangoing vessels collide in the seemingly limitless expanse of the sea?
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 21 June 2017
• Native to southeast Asia, the termite is thought to have arrived in South Florida on ships and oceangoing yachts, spreading from marinas into neighborhoods.
  — David Fleshler, Sun-Sentinel.com, 14 Apr. 2018
• Large oceangoing ships turn very slowly, which can be frustrating to someone accustomed to speeding around on nimble watercraft.
  — Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 5 Dec. 2019
• But the ensuing height restrictions immediately stopped most large oceangoing vessels, about 40% of the fleet that used to pull into Mariupol, from transiting between the two seas.
  — Fred Weir, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Aug. 2019
• Since there is far less oceangoing traffic, fewer obstacles, and more straight line of travel, you might be tempted to assume that a self-piloting ship would be easier to engineer than an autonomous car.
  — Danny Vena, USA TODAY, 19 Dec. 2017

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