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
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
He could not win that command of the narrow seas on which the success of his invasion depended.
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
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 Johnson, Willis Fletcher
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