narrow seas

British  

plural noun

1. archaic the channels between Great Britain and the Continent and Great Britain and Ireland

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Example Sentences

At the same time, providing safe passage for shipping through the Straits of Malacca and other narrow seas is in the interest of both countries.

From The Wall Street Journal

The atmosphere is “laden with clouds and mists” and the surface is covered by “numerous narrow ‘seas.’”

From Scientific American

The first colonists would thus have needed boats to cross some narrow seas in order to settle this land.

From Economist

His dazzling achievements as a general have obscured his more sober qualities as a ruler, and even the sound strategy, with which he aimed to be master of the narrow seas.

From Project Gutenberg

Complaints were lodged before Henry, but were almost ignored, “till the Earl of Surrey, then Treasurer and Marshal of England, declared at the council board, that while he had an estate that could furnish out a ship, or a son that was capable of commanding one, the narrow seas should not be so infested.”

From Project Gutenberg