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
The waves were bounding about us with that short and angry leap peculiar, in tempestuous weather, to the narrow seas between England and France.
From Rattlin the Reefer by Frederick Marryat
It was his function to guard Spanish treasure ships all the way across the Atlantic, from Mexico to Spain, as he had formerly guarded them in the narrow seas about the Indies.
From The History of Cuba, vol. 1 by Willis Fletcher Johnson
Circled about the island and fronting on the narrow seas which divide them from it are the territories of no fewer than fourteen independent national sovereignties.
From The History of Cuba, vol. 1 by Willis Fletcher Johnson
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