How to Use out to sea in a Sentence

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  • Notice those winds move north along the coastline and then head out to sea.
    Dave Epstein, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Mar. 2023
  • The blue whales travel further out to sea, so a boat tour is a better way to view them.
    Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 17 Feb. 2023
  • White worried a riptide of drugs and gangs threatened to carry Dante out to sea.
    Noelle Crombie, The Oregonian - OregonLive.com, 11 Dec. 2022
  • Crews on the shoreline are clapping the water in unison with shovels and equipment to make noise to push the whales out to sea.
    Gina Martinez, CBS News, 29 Nov. 2022
  • The last episode also had him rage-swimming out to sea, buoys be damned, which felt ominous but may well be a red herring.
    Time, 7 Dec. 2022
  • On the main forward deck is a large fire pit surrounded by a curved sofa facing out to sea.
    Julia Zaltzman, Robb Report, 20 Jan. 2023
  • Typically, polar bears range miles out to sea to hunt seals that live on sea ice.
    Eric Niiler, WSJ, 16 June 2022
  • But on their first flight after leaving the burrow, some young birds get confused by the lights of the town and head inland instead of out to sea.
    Cheryl Katz, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Feb. 2023
  • Low pressure will continue to develop to our east and then head out to sea.
    Dave Epstein, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Jan. 2023
  • One recent storm pummeled the stairs leading to the beach, twisting and tugging on them and threatening to pull them out to sea, Neil told me.
    Kristen E. Pope, Travel + Leisure, 18 Feb. 2023
  • When the storm moves out to sea on Wednesday, cooler weather will quickly follow.
    Jj Hensley, USA TODAY, 16 May 2023
  • Some of the rainwater is flooding rivers, flowing out to sea, and washing into storm drains.
    Ali Martin, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Jan. 2023
  • Runoff in the mountains has been able to flow back out to sea since Wednesday without interruptions.
    Gerry Díaz, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 Mar. 2023
  • From that day on, it is expected to curve to the northeast and track out to sea, threatening Bermuda later this week.
    Judson Jones, CNN, 19 Sep. 2022
  • By pulling the purse strings and decreasing or even halting marketing efforts, that tide could sweep you out to sea.
    Rebecca Kowalewicz, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2023
  • Francois, 47, was repairing his boat near the Dutch part of the island of Saint Martin in December when his boat was pulled out to sea.
    Zoe Sottile, CNN, 25 Feb. 2023
  • His sister's body was never found and is believed to have been swept out to sea after a massive storm hit the island not long after the eruption.
    Johnny Dodd, Peoplemag, 14 Dec. 2022
  • In these plans, a private contractor typically pulls the yacht out to sea via tugboat.
    Kathleen Wong, USA TODAY, 22 Feb. 2023
  • Each October, right after the start of the wet season, 120 million red crabs begin their sideways-tiptoeing journey from the depths of the forest out to sea.
    Alex Schechter, Travel + Leisure, 9 Apr. 2023
  • Because of the remote location of the beaches, the whale carcasses won’t be buried or towed out to sea, as is often the case, but instead will be left to decompose, Grover said.
    Nick Perry, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Oct. 2022
  • Eventually the sub was tugged back out to sea, ending a tense standoff between Swedish forces and a Soviet rescue fleet.
    Karl Ritter, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 May 2022
  • By marking the position of the stars reflected in the pool, Phoenician sailors could create a celestial map before heading out to sea.
    Jane Recker, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Apr. 2022
  • In the face of climate change, their work is more important than ever: On their first flight after leaving the burrow, some young birds get confused by the lights of the town and head inland instead of out to sea.
    Seyward Darby, Longreads, 7 Mar. 2023
  • The most remarkable tale was that of Lisala Folau, a 57-year-old retired carpenter who told Kupu’s Broadcom radio station that he had been swept out to sea by the tsunami.
    Washington Post, 21 Jan. 2022
  • The conservationists hoped that higher tides after 3:30 p.m. would help push the whales back out to sea, and all five were re-floated and released shortly after, according to the IFAW.
    Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 29 Nov. 2022
  • Anger flares as California stormwater washes out to sea.
    Elvia Limón, Laura Blasey, Los Angeles Times, 20 Jan. 2023
  • Two men and a sailboat vanished:10 days later, a miracle arrived Francois was making repairs to his boat in December off the island of St., when bad weather hit, pulling the boat out to sea.
    Jessica Guynn, USA TODAY, 21 Feb. 2023
  • Folau, who lived on the isolated island of Atata, with a population of about 60 people, was swept out to sea on Saturday evening.
    Reuters, CNN, 21 Jan. 2022
  • Facing criticism that stormwater flowed out to sea, the governor asked the water board to waive rules designed to protect salmon and other endangered fish.
    Alastair Bland, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 Feb. 2023
  • The storm, carrying extremely cold air, swept down from Canada and had been expected to pass through Nevada and move out to sea over Baja California.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Dec. 2022

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