How to Use seagoing in a Sentence

seagoing

adjective
  • This year, as hurricanes race into the warming coastal waters of the U.S., an array of seagoing robots will be waiting for them.
    John Fialka, Scientific American, 14 July 2020
  • The ship, one of the world’s biggest seagoing vessels, is also one of its best known, after it got stuck lengthwise across the Suez Canal, blocking traffic both ways on the critical choke point.
    Benoit Faucon, WSJ, 30 July 2021
  • Despite this trend, Spain predicted that seagoing ships will rely on human crews well into the future.
    BostonGlobe.com, 18 Oct. 2021
  • Mariners know that haste and heavy seagoing machinery are a deadly combination.
    Washington Post, 31 Mar. 2021
  • When wine tasters visited the ranch, Nyborg would throw in seagoing stories to any visitor who asked about the winery name or the nautical equipment everywhere.
    Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 Nov. 2021
  • An Austal rendering shows a vessel with a seagoing prow that hinges upward, allowing a ramp to extend forward into shallow water.
    al, 2 Aug. 2021
  • Lucas also hopes to use the simulator for his own research on seagoing robots that could potentially use ocean currents to power their own propulsion.
    Joshua Emerson Smith, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Dec. 2021
  • Nicola Caygill, managing director of Micro-Cruising, which brokers mostly seagoing motor yachts and sailboats, has two definitions for what makes — or doesn’t make — a cruise ship micro.
    Elizabeth Heath, Washington Post, 2 July 2020
  • Almost a billion seagoing containers travel the globe annually, Dr. Wasser says, yet only 1% or 2% get inspected, and corruption in ports and governments further reduces enforcement.
    Dean Paton, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Apr. 2022

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