How to Use at sea in a Sentence

at sea

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• The ship has been at sea for nine months, longer than the typycal six months.
  — Michelle Richardson, CBS News, 16 Aug. 2026
• The center of the cyclone was at sea and posed no threat to land.
  — ABC News, 1 July 2026
• The aircraft carrier has been at sea for more than eight months.
  — Justin Fishel, ABC News, 13 Aug. 2026
• To this point, the party’s leadership seems at sea about what to do.
  — The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 5 July 2026
• Sequences of the long boats at sea are stunning, even more so during a fierce storm.
  — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 15 July 2026
• The ships and their crews would be at sea for years and, if not enough whale oil was brought back, the sailors didn’t get paid.
  — Terry W. Hartle, Christian Science Monitor, 6 July 2026
• Sooty terns spend years at sea, flying thousands of miles before coming back to land to breed.
  — NPR, 3 Aug. 2026
• Air conditioning keeps the cabins cool on hot summer days at sea.
  — Karissa Waddick, USA Today, 1 July 2026
• The Lincoln is in its ninth month at sea and has been deployed for more than 260 days.
  — Connor Greene, Time, 14 Aug. 2026
• Nowhere is that ambition more evident than over a single long summer at sea.
  — Condé Nast Traveler, 15 July 2026
• The most obvious is out at sea, via one of the island's many catamaran cruises.
  — Jonnie Bayfield, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 July 2026
• The artists discussed filming the boat burning at sea or filling it with books before setting it ablaze.
  — Michelle F. Solomon, Miami Herald, 21 July 2026
• Thankfully, that wasn’t my only brush with luxury during my day at sea.
  — Maya Kachroo-Levine, Travel + Leisure, 5 Aug. 2026
• And yes, Nolan and his crew were actually out at sea, aboard a replica of a Greek ship.
  — Brianna Zigler, Entertainment Weekly, 17 July 2026
• The impact speed would be equivalent to more than Mach 26 at sea level.
  — Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 19 July 2026
• Hundreds of supporters gathered to cheer her arrival after nearly a month and a half at sea.
  — Brittany Miller, FOXNews.com, 5 July 2026
• Most spend their lives at sea or hauled out on remote, uninhabited islands far from anyone.
  — Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 17 July 2026
• With more than 1,200 days at sea as a commercial fisherman, his ties to the ocean are deep.
  — Iona Brannon, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Apr. 2023
• The Lincoln has been at sea for more than 260 consecutive days, a record.
  — Michel Martin, NPR, 14 Aug. 2026
• Quick getaways aren’t trying to reinvent cruising so much as remind travelers that a few days at sea can still feel like a win.
  — David Dickstein, Oc Register, 15 July 2026
• One in three New Bedford whaling ships would eventually be lost at sea.
  — Literary Hub, 6 July 2026
• Instead, the signs are revealed in the effortless, subtle habits people who love sailing have honed over years at sea.
  — Kristy Tolley, Travel + Leisure, 17 July 2026
• The yacht also has a touch-and-go helipad in the bow to facilitate comings and goings at sea.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 4 Aug. 2026
• Military families raise alarms over the well-being of sailors on a Navy ship that has been at sea for nearly nine months.
  — ABC News, 16 Aug. 2026
• Vivas said migrants have died in the attempt in the past, with 60 bodies being spotted at sea in the last year.
  — Renata Brito, Los Angeles Times, 29 July 2026
• The Chinese vehicle now has three flights under its belt, all of which launched from ships at sea and achieved full mission success.
  — Mike Wall, Space.com, 22 July 2026
• In The Odyssey, Odysseus falls into a deep sleep on the deck of his ship when an emergency arises at sea.
  — John Blake, CNN Money, 2 Aug. 2026
• Enforcement is no longer limited by the number of patrol vessels available at sea.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 16 July 2026
• Now a new study delves into just how the mice survive at such high altitudes, which afford less than half of the oxygen available at sea level.
  — Mary Randolph, Scientific American, 9 July 2026
• The ship has set a modern Navy record for the longest uninterrupted time at sea without a port visit.
  — Mabinty Quarshie, The Washington Examiner, 17 Aug. 2026