narrow seas
Britishplural noun
Example Sentences
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The first colonists would thus have needed boats to cross some narrow seas in order to settle this land.
From Economist • Jan. 17, 2013
It looks now as if the battle were to be fought on the narrow seas that separate Britain from the Continent.
From Time Magazine Archive
England was, as before, determined to assert her supposed sovereignty of the narrow seas, and to compel other nations to acknowledge her claims.
From How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves Updated to 1900 by Kingston, William Henry Giles
It was a pompous spectacle that midsummer night upon those narrow seas.
From The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. X (of X) - America - II, Index by Lodge, Henry Cabot
The charts don't tell you very much about those narrow seas.
From Thrice Armed by Bindloss, Harold
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