sea return
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Beyond the sea return there was only the icy Atlantic night.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the center, a ragged splash of light reflected the "sea return," the radar echo bouncing back from the vicious waves of the gale-roiled Atlantic.
From Time Magazine Archive
Twenty miles south of Scotland Light they dump their burdens into the dark sea, return.
From Time Magazine Archive
But even if it were recorded, a spokesman points out, the momentary disappearance of a ship on a radar screen is a common occurrence, the result of rain clutter, sea "return" or other natural causes.
From Time Magazine Archive
The second shock may cause the waters from which this spring came to rise as no living man has seen them rise, and make the sea return, and the treasure be lost.
From The Golden Fleece, a romance by Hawthorne, Julian
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