How to Use seaborne in a Sentence

seaborne

adjective

• One third of the world’s seaborne oil passes through it.
  — Jomana Karadsheh, CNN, 23 Jan. 2023
• Roughly a third of the world’s seaborne oil trade goes through the Strait of Hormuz.
  — Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 14 June 2019
• The passage accounts for as much as 13% of seaborne trade.
  — Benoit Faucon, WSJ, 29 July 2021
• More than a third of the world’s seaborne crude-oil transits come through the Persian Gulf.
  — Dion Nissenbaum, WSJ, 30 May 2023
• The spell of seaborne luxury is cast, and the sailing is, well, smooth.
  — Veronique De Turenne, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Aug. 2017
• Nearly fifteen per cent of the world’s seaborne trade passes through the Red Sea and the Suez Canal.
  — Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2024
• The three countries combined import about one-third of the world’s seaborne crude oil.
  — Fortune, 11 Aug. 2017
• The Strait accounts for about a third of the world’s seaborne oil flows, and Brent crude rallied as much as 2.4% on Friday’s news.
  — Alex Morales, Time, 21 July 2019
• To track the problem, researchers are now homing in on these seaborne flecks from more than 300 miles away—in space.
  — Lauren J. Young, Scientific American, 26 Apr. 2023
• The canal connects the Mediterranean and Red Seas and accounts for as much as 13% of seaborne trade and about 10% of maritime shipments of oil.
  — Jennifer Smith, WSJ, 28 Mar. 2021
• Djibouti stands at the entrance to the Red Sea, which about 12% of all seaborne trade traverses on scores of ships using the Suez Canal.
  — Costas Paris, WSJ, 21 Feb. 2019
• Roughly a third of the world’s seaborne oil is shipped via the strait, some of which falls within Iranian waters.
  — Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 19 July 2019
• Most humans are landlubbers, after all—though many of our foods and jobs are tied to seaborne economies.
  — National Geographic, 24 Apr. 2019
• On July 17, the Kerch bridge was hit again, this time by an unmanned seaborne vehicle.
  — Oleksandr Chubko, New York Times, 22 Oct. 2023
• But since the bulk of its oil imports are seaborne, there’s the risk of China being cut off from its oil supplies in the event of a wartime naval blockade.
  — Mary Hui, Quartz, 23 Mar. 2022
• On Monday, the European Union slapped a ban on all seaborne imports of Russian oil.
  — Max Zahn, ABC News, 5 Dec. 2022
• The pioneers are the seabirds, whose fishy guano provides a nutritive anchor for air and seaborne seeds.
  — Amy Brady, Scientific American, 17 Oct. 2023
• Europe should also work to boost Ukrainian exports by rail, even if that would not make up for seaborne routes.
  — Frida Ghitis, CNN, 3 June 2022
• China imports more than 70% of seaborne iron ore to feed its steel industry, the world’s biggest.
  — Krystal Chia, Bloomberg.com, 27 Sep. 2020
• The Strait of Hormuz is a strategic waterway for the seaborne transportation of about a fifth of the world's global crude oil exports.
  — Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, 18 July 2019
• The early years of the 20th century saw the concept of seaborne aeronautics evolve quickly.
  — Matthew Moss, Popular Mechanics, 22 May 2018
• That compares with seaborne volumes of 1.57 million barrels a day from its Baltic, Black Sea and Arctic ports.
  — Ewa Krukowska, BostonGlobe.com, 30 May 2022
• Italy has rescued hundreds of thousands of seaborne migrants since 2013.
  — Giovanni Legorano, WSJ, 19 Mar. 2018
• The waterway connects the Mediterranean and Red Seas and carries as much as 13% of global maritime trade and 10% of seaborne oil shipments.
  — Jennifer Smith, WSJ, 31 Mar. 2021
• The Russian retreat reduced the threat of a seaborne Russian attack on Odesa and helped pave the way for a deal to resume Ukrainian grain exports.
  — Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 9 July 2023
• Last year, about 23 million metric tons of coal exports were shipped from the port of Baltimore, about a quarter of all seaborne U.S. coal shipments.
  — Jenny Gross, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2024
• The country secured a partial exemption from the E.U. ban on seaborne crude imports from Russia.
  — Julian Lee, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Oct. 2022
• Oil prices have risen sharply in the past few days on fears that potential attacks in the Strait of Hormuz, through which over a third of the world’s seaborne crude is shipped, will disrupt global supply.
  — Stephanie Yang, WSJ, 21 June 2019
• More than half of the vessels are very large crude carriers, the workhorses of seaborne oil trade, which can move up to two million barrels each in a single sailing.
  — Costas Paris, WSJ, 12 Aug. 2020
• These fenders and caissons also defend the massive piers from seaborne attack by presenting a navigational challenge for sea drones attempting to reach them.
  — Ben Hodges, Led Klosky, Robert Person, Foreign Affairs, 5 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 11 Dec 2024