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

When day broke this ridge loomed large before them in the midst of the oceanlike plain, but before they reached it the day was well on towards noon.

From A Vendetta of the Desert by Scully, W. C. (William Charles)

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 Peattie, Elia Wilkinson

Looking over an intervening belt of shrubbery, we saw the green, oceanlike expanse of prairie, stretching swell over swell to the horizon.

From The Oregon Trail: sketches of prairie and Rocky-Mountain life by Parkman, Francis