How to Use out to sea in a Sentence

out to sea

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  • Notice those winds move north along the coastline and then head out to sea.
    Dave Epstein, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Mar. 2023
  • The blue whales travel further out to sea, so a boat tour is a better way to view them.
    Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 17 Feb. 2023
  • Typically, polar bears range miles out to sea to hunt seals that live on sea ice.
    Eric Niiler, WSJ, 16 June 2022
  • Low pressure will continue to develop to our east and then head out to sea.
    Dave Epstein, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Jan. 2023
  • On the main forward deck is a large fire pit surrounded by a curved sofa facing out to sea.
    Julia Zaltzman, Robb Report, 20 Jan. 2023
  • White worried a riptide of drugs and gangs threatened to carry Dante out to sea.
    Noelle Crombie, The Oregonian - OregonLive.com, 11 Dec. 2022
  • Some of the rainwater is flooding rivers, flowing out to sea, and washing into storm drains.
    Ali Martin, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Jan. 2023
  • When the storm moves out to sea on Wednesday, cooler weather will quickly follow.
    Jj Hensley, USA TODAY, 16 May 2023
  • By pulling the purse strings and decreasing or even halting marketing efforts, that tide could sweep you out to sea.
    Rebecca Kowalewicz, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2023
  • Crews on the shoreline are clapping the water in unison with shovels and equipment to make noise to push the whales out to sea.
    Gina Martinez, CBS News, 29 Nov. 2022
  • In these plans, a private contractor typically pulls the yacht out to sea via tugboat.
    Kathleen Wong, USA TODAY, 22 Feb. 2023
  • Runoff in the mountains has been able to flow back out to sea since Wednesday without interruptions.
    Gerry Díaz, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 Mar. 2023
  • But on their first flight after leaving the burrow, some young birds get confused by the lights of the town and head inland instead of out to sea.
    Cheryl Katz, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Feb. 2023
  • From that day on, it is expected to curve to the northeast and track out to sea, threatening Bermuda later this week.
    Judson Jones, CNN, 19 Sep. 2022
  • Placing turbines far out to sea has multiple advantages, experts say.
    Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 8 Dec. 2022
  • His sister's body was never found and is believed to have been swept out to sea after a massive storm hit the island not long after the eruption.
    Johnny Dodd, Peoplemag, 14 Dec. 2022
  • One recent storm pummeled the stairs leading to the beach, twisting and tugging on them and threatening to pull them out to sea, Neil told me.
    Kristen E. Pope, Travel + Leisure, 18 Feb. 2023
  • Eventually the sub was tugged back out to sea, ending a tense standoff between Swedish forces and a Soviet rescue fleet.
    Karl Ritter, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 May 2022
  • Facing criticism that stormwater flowed out to sea, the governor asked the water board to waive rules designed to protect salmon and other endangered fish.
    Alastair Bland, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 Feb. 2023
  • By marking the position of the stars reflected in the pool, Phoenician sailors could create a celestial map before heading out to sea.
    Jane Recker, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Apr. 2022
  • Because of the remote location of the beaches, the whale carcasses won’t be buried or towed out to sea, as is often the case, but instead will be left to decompose, Grover said.
    Nick Perry, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Oct. 2022
  • Francois, 47, was repairing his boat near the Dutch part of the island of Saint Martin in December when his boat was pulled out to sea.
    Zoe Sottile, CNN, 25 Feb. 2023
  • Each October, right after the start of the wet season, 120 million red crabs begin their sideways-tiptoeing journey from the depths of the forest out to sea.
    Alex Schechter, Travel + Leisure, 9 Apr. 2023
  • Folau, who lived on the isolated island of Atata, with a population of about 60 people, was swept out to sea on Saturday evening.
    Reuters, CNN, 21 Jan. 2022
  • Two men and two young boys at risk of being washed out to sea during a kayaking expedition on Tomales Bay were rescued by helicopter Sunday afternoon.
    Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Nov. 2022
  • The storm, carrying extremely cold air, swept down from Canada and had been expected to pass through Nevada and move out to sea over Baja California.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Dec. 2022
  • The most remarkable tale was that of Lisala Folau, a 57-year-old retired carpenter who told Kupu’s Broadcom radio station that he had been swept out to sea by the tsunami.
    Washington Post, 21 Jan. 2022

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