How to Use seaport in a Sentence

seaport

noun

• Boston is a major seaport in the northeastern U.S.
• Learn about the mills, the seaport, the Gold Rush and how the region fared through two world wars.
  — Scott McMurren, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Feb. 2022
• The 81-foot schooner takes guests around the nearby islands and through the seaport.
  — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 17 May 2023
• This bustling seaport is one of the largest cities in Canada.
  — Lauren Eckert, National Geographic, 27 June 2019
• But this year may well be a turning point for the seaport.
  — Jane Margolies, New York Times, 22 May 2018
• The Danube ports can’t handle the same volume as seaports.
  — Hanna Arhirova, Chicago Tribune, 30 July 2023
• The floods collapsed a part of the RN1 road that links Kinshasa to Matadi, the country’s main seaport.
  — Sammy Westfall, Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2022
• One female green turtle was struck by a ship just down the road, near the world’s ninth busiest seaport.
  — Craig Welch, National Geographic, 20 Sep. 2019
• The boat lift also served as a reminder that New York City was and remains a seaport.
  — John Hanc, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Sep. 2021
• Piano was born to a family of builders in the Italian seaport of Genoa.
  — Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2021
• The crash disrupted marine traffic at the seaport, which is among the largest in the Mid-Atlantic.
  — Kevin Shalvey, ABC News, 19 May 2024
• The Golden Ray was stuck in a shipping channel, closing one of the busiest US seaports.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 10 Sep. 2019
• Some of the seaport’s new offerings will be more rarefied than the souvenir shops of old.
  — Jane Margolies, New York Times, 22 May 2018
• Russian troops launched a missile attack on the Olvia seaport in the Mykolaiv Oblast.
  — Katya Soldak, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2022
• The city’s loss also deprives Ukraine of a vital seaport.
  — Oleksandr Stashevskyi, BostonGlobe.com, 20 May 2022
• The city's loss also deprives Ukraine of a vital seaport.
  — Arkansas Online, 21 May 2022
• Three seaports are open, and five are open with restrictions.
  — Jeanette Steele, sandiegouniontribune.com, 27 Sep. 2017
• Libyan seaports near Tripoli are just 180 miles from the Italian island of Lampedusa.
  — Alissa J. Rubin, New York Times, 29 May 2018
• The port is one of the busiest U.S. seaports for shipping automobiles.
  — Fox News, 9 Sep. 2019
• And a harbor that would make Caesarea the most dominant seaport in the region.
  — National Geographic, 15 Oct. 2019
• The main airport is in Bari, the region’s capital and a major seaport.
  — Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 30 May 2024
• A full look at the port of Oakland’s seaport activity can be found here.
  — Annie Sciacca, The Mercury News, 8 June 2017
• The days of wooden shipbuilding are over, but still, Benicia is a seaport.
  — Carl Nolte, San Francisco Chronicle, 23 Apr. 2021
• This is the world’s biggest seaport outside Asia—25 miles, nearly twice the length of Manhattan, from end to end.
  — Vivienne Walt, Fortune, 5 Aug. 2022
• The explosion in Beirut hit the city's seaport and was reportedly felt 150 miles away.
  — Alexia Fernandez, PEOPLE.com, 6 Aug. 2020
• For container shipments from overseas, the assets can even be tracked at the seaport.
  — Forbes, 7 June 2021
• For Rotterdam, Europe’s largest seaport, 10% of its business is with the U.K.
  — Max Colchester, WSJ, 24 Dec. 2020
• The protesters demand free movement in and out of Gaza, free use of the Gaza seaport, and unrestricted trade in goods.
  — Ryan Cooper, The Week, 10 Feb. 2019
• The narrated tour lasts 90 minutes and takes passengers through the seaport, the first major port on the Pacific Coast to build terminals for container ships.
  — Kristin J. Bender, The Mercury News, 20 June 2024
• In the third century B.C.E., the law required travelers arriving at the city’s bustling seaport to hand over any books in their possession to library scribes, who would return a copy of the book to the owner and keep the originals.
  — Sarah Wild, Scientific American, 16 July 2024

Last Updated: 6 Nov 2024