How to Use seafaring in a Sentence
seafaring
noun- He began a life of seafaring.
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For his role as the young seafaring prince, to actor had to get in shape.
—Jessica Wang, EW.com, 4 June 2023
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The game is, for the most part, a sublime seafaring sequel.
—Lewis Gordon, Wired, 15 May 2021
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Attempts by ships to hide their tracks are as old as seafaring.
—Anatoly Kurmanaev, New York Times, 3 Sep. 2022
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Since at least the Bronze Age, seafaring has been key to cultural progress.
—Eric A Powell, Discover Magazine, 28 June 2012
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But there's more to the seafaring-themed supermarket than meets the eye.
—Kelly O'Sullivan, Country Living, 20 July 2017
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Long gone are the romanticized days when the seafaring life was a ticket to travel the world.
—Brendan Murray, Bloomberg.com, 23 Nov. 2022
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There were hats that looked like small seafaring vessels.
—Ellen Barry, New York Times, 24 June 2019
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All while the two risk danger at the hands of an enemy from Morgan's seafaring days.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 22 Feb. 2023
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In the midst of Driver's retirement from seafaring, the Civil War broke out.
—Josh Axelrod and Saeed Ahmed, CNN, 14 June 2018
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The book grew out of Urbina’s reporting about the sea for the New York Times, and as a result, it is constructed as a series of seafaring yarns.
—Alyssa Rosenberg, Washington Post, 12 Sep. 2019
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Those headed to the Lyric Opera House hoping to encounter a certain seafaring ginger princess are in for a surprise.
—Lauren Warnecke, Chicago Tribune, 20 Apr. 2023
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The seafaring group nearly crumbled under mutiny and a perilous crash at the mouth of the Columbia River.
—OregonLive.com, 1 Jan. 2018
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The good-natured seafaring giants will swim right up to human visitors, who can dip their faces into the sea to plant a kiss on the heads of the huge 40-ton sea mammals.
—Jasmine Aguilera, Time, 14 Aug. 2019
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Eddie Izzard‘s character hails from the Sifa Clan, a seafaring people who deal in tricks and secrets.
—Christian Holub, EW.com, 31 Aug. 2019
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Of course, a statue of Lenin stands sentinel, and a mural of a seafaring Vladimir Putin reminds you which country now owns the peninsula.
—Jeff Opdyke, latimes.com, 23 June 2019
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The paintings and sculptures loosely evoke seafaring imagery, with rising wave shapes and a sense of swirling movement.
—Deborah Solomon, New York Times, 5 May 2024
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As befits a story about seafaring and the dank nether reaches of the mind, nautical images slosh throughout.
—Emily Bobrow, WSJ, 28 Dec. 2018
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The first lesson for the aspiring merchant marines is not about seafaring, but instead about where to seek shelter during an air raid.
—Marc Santora Laetitia Vancon, New York Times, 26 Sep. 2023
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The seafaring town’s history lies in salt cod, but recent years have brought the excitement onshore.
—Lacy Morris, Vogue, 12 Sep. 2017
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That would make her part of Odesa’s rich history of seafaring, and Ukraine’s outsize role in the world’s shipping industry.
—Marc Santora Laetitia Vancon, New York Times, 26 Sep. 2023
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Its power and wealth came from seafaring and trade, and its cultural and economic influence stretched from its home island of Crete all the way to Egypt.
—Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 5 Jan. 2022
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That exoticism reflects Venice’s glory days as a seafaring empire whose trade routes linked East and West.
—Blair Kamin, chicagotribune.com, 12 July 2019
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By the time Rivers was granted what was to be the state’s 10th and final license more than a decade ago, the seafaring requirements had been dramatically eased.
—Robert Channick, chicagotribune.com, 8 Nov. 2019
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Once the whaling capital of the world, this prim little island off the coast of Cape Cod leverages its seafaring past to entice lovers of clapboard cottages and striped sailor shirts.
—Valerie Marino, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Oct. 2019
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On islands spanning from the Taiwan Strait to Polynesia live the Austronesians, best known for their seafaring.
—Melinda A. Yang, The Conversation, 15 Sep. 2020
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There's an old seafaring superstition that says women are bad luck at sea.
—Hannah Sampson, chicagotribune.com, 3 Dec. 2019
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Set sail for a stylish bash by topping your confection with this classic seafaring motif.
—Jessica Leigh Hester, Country Living, 18 June 2014
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Each seafaring adventure lasts between three and six nights.
—Allison Tibaldi, CNN, 16 May 2017
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Both are elite seafaring jobs, requiring years of intense training and apprenticeship to learn every detail of local waterways and how to navigate them.
—Dan Belson, Baltimore Sun, 2 Apr. 2024
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