How to Use sea power in a Sentence

sea power

noun

• Britain was the world's greatest sea power at one time.
• Portugal was the primary sea power at the time, and Spain was biting at its heels.
  — David James, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Sep. 2022
• Japan, which mostly relies on the U.S. for its defense, has a front-row seat to this realignment in sea power.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 13 Aug. 2021
• Germany began a huge naval buildup, with the goal of supplanting the Royal Navy as the world’s dominant sea power.
  — Cameron Hilditch, National Review, 17 June 2021
• Hitler never understood the primacy of the sea power that would allow the U.S. to fight in two theaters at once and supply its allies all the while.
  — Arthur Herman, WSJ, 21 Jan. 2022
• Frankopan leaves us to imagine what human history might have looked like without Great Britain as a sea power.
  — Ben Ehrenreich, The New Republic, 10 May 2023
• The British model of a liberal and pro-business society at home focused on global trade and sea power proved robust and durable.
  — Walter Russell Mead, WSJ, 31 Jan. 2022
• This is not a fait accompli; American sea power can be restored.
  — Seth Cropsey, WSJ, 14 May 2018
• The other shift, less heralded, was Sea Plan 2000, a bold new idea for reviving American sea power in the face of a Soviet bid for naval supremacy.
  — Arthur Herman, WSJ, 22 July 2018
• The airplane and aviation defined the 20th century, much like sea power defined the 19th century.
  — Charles Beames, Forbes, 31 Aug. 2021
• Kaushal, an expert on sea power and maritime doctrine, said its absence from the Black Sea would mean Russia's entire naval force would be vulnerable to air attack.
  — NBC News, 14 Apr. 2022
• The Shipyards Act is an outstanding first step on the path to revitalizing America’s sea power.
  — Jim Talent, National Review, 3 May 2021
• Vengeance will not be complete until Japanese sea power is reduced to impotence.
  — Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 8 Nov. 2019
• The crisis subsided, but the Mahanian lesson for Beijing was clear: The ability to deploy and demonstrate sea power was of paramount importance.
  — Daniel Yergin, The Atlantic, 15 Dec. 2020
• Yet these lumbering leviathans wouldn’t have been feasible without the implicit protection of American sea power.
  — Washington Post, 7 Aug. 2019
• The two world powers have added the coronavirus crisis to the other battlefronts – from South Asian sea power to trade and 5G technology – in their accelerating global competition.
  — Howard Lafranchi, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Mar. 2020
• Signs of wreckage were first detected three years ago during inspection work when sonar detected a shipwreck 15 meters from an under-sea power cable between Norway and Denmark.
  — Lianne Kolirin, CNN, 8 Sep. 2020
• Stavridis might have sounded the alarm in another nonfiction book, an extension of his two professional memoirs and his authoritative history of sea power.
  — Mark Athitakis, Los Angeles Times, 4 Mar. 2021
• If, however, Iran ignores this array of international sea power and bombs a ship, blasts a U.S. drone, or otherwise misbehaves, Trump already will have in place — just a few miles away — potential partners for a multilateral reprisal.
  — Deroy Murdock, National Review, 28 June 2019
• Over 2,400 years ago, the historian Thucydides had emphasized the military advantages of sea powers, particularly their ability to control commerce and move troops.
  — Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, 18 Oct. 2017
• Eurasian landmass empires are weaker when compared to the modern Anglo-American archetype of surpassing sea power, free trade with other rich nations, and comparatively limited government.
  — Stephen Kotkin, Foreign Affairs, 6 Apr. 2022
• Britain’s sea power, imperialism, parliamentary government, and majority-Protestant religion set it apart from its European neighbors — and not just because of its geographical isolation.
  — Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, 12 Sep. 2019

Last Updated: 18 Oct 2024