How to Use seaway in a Sentence

seaway

noun

• Scientists already have an idea of what life was like in the seaway, though.
  — Erin Blakemore, Smithsonian, 22 June 2017
• The frozen maze skirts the seaway, flowing with jagged cells of ice, and weaves into the hardwood forest behind it.
  — Elaine Glusac, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2020
• But, like the Balize concept, the idea of a manmade seaway and inland harbor would persist.
  — Richard Campanella, NOLA.com, 1 Jan. 2021
• This is about the safety of British and international shipping in one of the most important seaways in the world.
  — Los Angeles Times, 20 July 2019
• But the new find from North Dakota indicates that large mosasaurs were still present in the last remaining parts of the ancient seaway in the middle of the continent.
  — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Nov. 2021
• The portion of cargo carried by overseas ships carrying up the seaway in recent years has been 5% of the overall tonnage moved on the lakes.
  — Dan Egan, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 18 Apr. 2018
• At the time that Sue and the sharks died, the seaway waters were already in retreat, creating a wide coastal plain carved with slow-moving rivers, just like the one where Sue and the sharks were deposited.
  — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 21 Jan. 2019
• At about 96 million years old, this site dates to the Cretaceous period, a time when a vast seaway stretched from western Canada to the Gulf of Mexico.
  — Michael Greshko, National Geographic, 10 June 2019
• Secretary of State Mike Pompeo publicly blamed Iran for the assault on the two boats, which both caught on fire and were not in danger of sinking in the critical seaway for crude oil.
  — Andrew Duehren, WSJ, 14 June 2019
• Researchers hope to use the finished product to help reconstruct the complex environment of the seaway.
  — Erin Blakemore, Smithsonian, 22 June 2017
• The mostly frozen seaway is used in warmer seasons to move some of Russia’s energy exports to overseas markets.
  — Costas Paris, WSJ, 8 Oct. 2020
• Four hours later, waves moved through the Central American seaway and into the Pacific Ocean.
  — Phillip Nieto, Fox News, 20 Oct. 2022
• As the Cretaceous ended, this seaway shrank—and so did the volume of sediments needed to preserve fossils.
  — Michael Greshko, National Geographic, 6 Mar. 2019
• Brokers in Singapore and London said the seaway carries a high-risk premium—now, more than any other seaborne trade route.
  — Benoit Faucon, WSJ, 13 June 2019
• Nature got its revenge during Barents’s third attempt to find a seaway to China, the ice finally won.
  — New York Times, 8 Jan. 2021
• A seaway is said to have split the continent into Western and Eastern halves and an unknown location of a land connection allowed the Triceratops to head east.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 26 May 2017
• There are competing explanations for what’s going on in the narrow seaway through which 21% of the world’s crude oil currently passes.
  — Rockford Weitz, The Conversation, 19 July 2019
• At the time, there was an inland seaway slowly withdrawing northward toward Canada, Woodruff said.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 10 Feb. 2022
• Ships must meet numerous safety and environmental requirements to traverse the lakes and have to be able to navigate the seaway’s 15-lock system to get to Lake Erie.
  — Sylvia Goodman, Chicago Tribune, 17 July 2022
• Diplodocus-like neosauropods were thought to have never made it to East Asia because this region was cut-off from the rest of the world by Jurassic seaways, so that China evolved its own distinctive and separate dinosaur fauna.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 26 July 2018
• Everybody knows there was a shallow seaway cutting across the continent during the Late Cretaceous.
  — Brian Romans, WIRED, 21 May 2008
• After death, its carcass ended up back-first on the muddy floor of an ancient seaway, where its front half was preserved in 3-D with extraordinary detail.
  — Robert Clark, National Geographic, 3 Aug. 2017
• Another key feature is that top speeds can be comfortably sustained in a seaway when typical planing yachts need to throttle back.
  — Julia Zaltzman, Robb Report, 6 Oct. 2022
• The average annual cargo loads carried by those seaway vessels has since plummeted to the point that today it could be carried by a single inbound and outbound train from the East Coast.
  — Dan Egan, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 18 Apr. 2018
• As the region warms faster than any other in the world, different industries — from oil production to defense to tourism — are eyeing the newly accessible seaways.
  — Kelsey Lindsey, Alaska Dispatch News, 3 Sep. 2017
• The Great Lakes region is recognized for its seaway and international borders.
  — Nour Rahal, Detroit Free Press, 15 Mar. 2021
• Back then, eastern New Mexico was covered by a seaway that extended deep into North America.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 17 Apr. 2021
• The isolation lasted into the Early Cretaceous, after which the seaway shrank, allowing for migration overland once more.
  — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 24 July 2018
• Existing in a warm, shallow seaway between today’s Rocky and Appalachian mountains, plesiosaurs lived alongside mosasaurs, the apex predator of their day, resembling a type of watery Komodo dragon.
  — Jack Dura, The Seattle Times, 15 Jan. 2018
• Wet, lowland habitats along the coasts of these subcontinents generally stood a better chance of preserving dinosaurs than areas that were more inland—until the seaway receded by 66 million years ago.
  — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Oct. 2022

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024