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
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 Francis Parkman
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
The water lay in the bottom of a hollow, the smooth prairie gracefully rising in oceanlike swells on every side.
From The Oregon Trail: sketches of prairie and Rocky-Mountain life by Francis Parkman
