ocean liner

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noun

an oceangoing passenger ship, operating either as one unit of a regular scheduled service or as a cruise ship.

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Origin of ocean liner

An Americanism dating back to 1830–40

Words nearby ocean liner

oceanic crust, oceanicity, oceanic ridge, oceanic trench, Oceanid, ocean liner, ocean marine insurance, Ocean of Storms, oceanog., oceanography, oceanologic

How to use ocean liner in a sentence

Its disruptions have increased costs for shippers, who have to deal with the inefficiencies of leaving their ocean liners idling outside of packed ports.
Ports are a mess but shipping company profits are at record highs|Nicolás Rivero|September 18, 2021|Quartz
Record numbers of ocean liners are waiting offshore for berths to unload their cargo.
Ports are a mess but shipping company profits are at record highs|Nicolás Rivero|September 18, 2021|Quartz
Put the pair out for a Super Bowl party, I will glom onto the snack like barnacle to an ocean liner.
The 25 best sandwiches in the D.C. area|Tim Carman|June 16, 2021|Washington Post
These brave souls took an icy dip in the ocean to ring in 2015 and raise money for charity.
Diving Into 2015 With Polar Bear Plunge Extremists|James Joiner|January 1, 2015|DAILY BEAST

Miles of Soviet era housing projects sat along on the ocean.
Cuban Hip-Hop Was Born in Alamar|Daniel Levin|December 26, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Fidel jumped out and hopped into the ocean without getting wet.
The Life and Hard Times Of The Family A Cuban Defector Left Behind|Brin-Jonathan Butler|December 19, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Opposite is a red-brick monastery leaning like an ocean liner in the snow.
Russia’s Gold Digger Academy|Peter Pomerantsev|November 11, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The real story of who killed bin Laden may have gone to the bottom of the ocean or been plowed back into the dirt in Abbottabad.
Bin Laden ‘Shooter’ Story Is FUBAR, Special Ops Sources Say|Shane Harris|November 7, 2014|DAILY BEAST
They are so rich in harmony, so weird, so wild, that when you hear them you are like a sea-weed cast upon the bosom of the ocean.
Music-Study in Germany|Amy Fay
His soul was tossed on the billows of a tempestuous ocean, in the midst of which he saw his father perishing.
The Pastor's Fire-side Vol. 3 of 4|Jane Porter
Monsieur Farival thought that Victor should have been taken out in mid-ocean in his earliest youth and drowned.
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories|Kate Chopin
But this port (to obviate misunderstanding) is not on the Ocean lying eastward, but on that gulf which I have called French bay.
The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, Vol. II: Acadia, 1612-1614|Various
The common law is therefore always slowly changing like the ocean and is never at rest.
Putnam's Handy Law Book for the Layman|Albert Sidney Bolles