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Recent Examples of seaportThe New England seaport showcases its English colonial past with its quaint harbor, sea captains’ homes, and maritime festivals.—Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 29 Mar. 2025 Making both lists – whether at the top 50 or top 100 level, whether recovering from a drop in trade or not – is a good measure of a strong year, given that there were more than 800 U.S. airport, seaports and border crossings that conducted trade in 2024.—Ken Roberts, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2025 Accordingly, maps of urban projects, airports and seaports overlay the cartographic contours of Gaza; and a Gaza-West Bank corridor, which would be sealed for Israeli security, could connect the two geographically separate Palestinian territories.—Christine Leuenberger, The Conversation, 7 Feb. 2025 Less than 15 miles from Rome, Ostia Antica was once a bustling cosmopolitan seaport at the mouth of the Tiber River, where many Mediterranean cultures mingled.—Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for seaport
What do cruise ship crew members do during those final few days sailing from the shipyard to a new home port before passengers come aboard?
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David Nikel,
Forbes.com,
2 Apr. 2025
Where will Norwegian Aqua sail? Following a transatlantic cruise that departed from Southampton, England, last week, the ship will sail on Bahamas, Bermuda and Caribbean itineraries with home ports in Miami, the Orlando-area Port Canaveral and New York through March 2027.
Fifteen years after her husband’s drowning in the nearby bay, Tressilian’s days are spent in a cranky routine: grumbling over the obscene resort stationed on the opposite bluff, reading London’s gossip columns, and summoning the household help with the insistent ringing of a bedroom call bell.
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Erik Morse,
Vogue,
15 Apr. 2025
Some cooks use bay leaves in the pantry to deter moths, weevils, and other pests.
Four days later, Todd used that fan’s sound to share a TikTok post of him in the recording studio.
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Jason Lipshutz,
Billboard,
9 Apr. 2025
To listen to these recordings, to go back as far as the turn of the century, to the beginning of recorded sound to the present is to hear points in a timeline, to time travel.
Day visitors and overnight guests can utilize a variety of rental options to explore the quiet wetlands of the Colorado River estuary.
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Mariah Tyler,
Travel + Leisure,
8 Mar. 2025
Stuart’s home county, Martin County, sits on the most biodiverse estuary in the Northern Hemisphere and is home to 100 artificial reef systems and more than 800 species of fish.
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Tara Massouleh McCay,
Southern Living,
7 Mar. 2025
The earthquake, reported to be 7.7 in magnitude, struck with the force of many atomic bombs - collapsing buildings and trapping people in desperate straits.
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Roger Huang,
Forbes.com,
9 Apr. 2025
Still, Iran is in dire economic straits, and domestic pressure is mounting.
Rescue operations are underway Friday after a small plane with 10 people went missing over Alaska’s Norton Sound shoreline — an inlet of the Bering Sea.
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Ashleigh Fields,
The Hill,
7 Feb. 2025
Palm Beach County In Palm Beach County, the most vulnerable spots by the year 2050 would include communities just south of Jupiter inlet, including the Jupiter Ridge Natural Area, and communities east and south of the Jonathan’s Landing Golf Club.
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