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

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

Although stationed largely in the narrow seas, there were set no limits to the latitude and longitude of their employment.

From Merchantmen-at-arms : the British merchants' service in the war by Bone, David W. (David William)

The occupation of a French fortress by a foreign power was a perpetual insult to the national pride; it was a memorial of evil times; while it gave England inconvenient authority in the "narrow seas."

From The Reign of Mary Tudor by Rhys, Ernest

A squadron of cruisers patrolled the narrow seas between the North Foreland and the French coast, and thus closed the North Sea entrance to the Channel.

From The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 1 (of 10) From the Beginning of the War to the Landing of the British Army in France by Parrott, James Edward