ocean
noun
any part of or the entirety of salt water that covers more than 70 percent of the earth's surface.
oceanlike
-
a word derived from
ocean.
Example Sentences
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The sight of the oceanlike lake from our small ferry was truly both awe-inspiring and scary.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 17, 2015
They ducked under barbed-wire fences and scrambled in and out of ditches that crisscrossed beneath the freeways, ever aware of the frightening, oceanlike roaring over their heads.
From "Lupita Mañana" by Patricia Beatty
Beyond it stretched the immense oceanlike plains of the Loieta, from which here and there rose isolated hills, very distant, like lonesome ships at sea.
From African Camp Fires by Stewart Edward White
Nothing unusual occurred on that day; but on the following morning Henry Chatillon, looking over the oceanlike expanse, saw near the foot of the distant hills something that looked like a band of buffalo.
From The Oregon Trail: sketches of prairie and Rocky-Mountain life by Francis Parkman
The corn came up beautifully, and far as the eye could reach around their home it tossed its broad green leaves with an oceanlike swelling of sibilant sound.
From A Mountain Woman by Elia Wilkinson Peattie
