How to Use sea power in a Sentence

sea power

noun

• Britain was the world's greatest sea power at one time.
• More to the point, sea power is about power projection for economic gain.
  — Colin Flint, The Conversation, 25 Mar. 2025
• Portugal was the primary sea power at the time, and Spain was biting at its heels.
  — David James, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Sep. 2022
• This is not a fait accompli; American sea power can be restored.
  — Seth Cropsey, WSJ, 14 May 2018
• Frankopan leaves us to imagine what human history might have looked like without Great Britain as a sea power.
  — Ben Ehrenreich, The New Republic, 10 May 2023
• But some historians have argued that this glossed a scheme to provide a bastion for British sea power in the eastern seas.
  — Britannica Editors, Encyclopedia Britannica, 19 Mar. 2026
• Vengeance will not be complete until Japanese sea power is reduced to impotence.
  — Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 8 Nov. 2019
• Iran’s conventional navy warships might be largely destroyed, but analysts say that’s never where its true sea power lay.
  — Lauren Kent, CNN Money, 8 May 2026
• Germany began a huge naval buildup, with the goal of supplanting the Royal Navy as the world’s dominant sea power.
  — Cameron Hilditch, National Review, 17 June 2021
• The British model of a liberal and pro-business society at home focused on global trade and sea power proved robust and durable.
  — Walter Russell Mead, WSJ, 31 Jan. 2022
• According to one version, troops would be posted away from the front line at key infrastructure sites such as nuclear power plants and backed by Western air and sea power.
  — arkansasonline.com, 12 Mar. 2025
• The Shipyards Act is an outstanding first step on the path to revitalizing America’s sea power.
  — Jim Talent, National Review, 3 May 2021
• Yet these lumbering leviathans wouldn’t have been feasible without the implicit protection of American sea power.
  — Washington Post, 7 Aug. 2019
• The airplane and aviation defined the 20th century, much like sea power defined the 19th century.
  — Charles Beames, Forbes, 31 Aug. 2021
• This partnership is a geopolitical and technical win for both sides, and yet another sign that uncrewed maritime systems are becoming central to modern sea power.
  — Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 16 Nov. 2025
• Kaushal, an expert on sea power and maritime doctrine, said its absence from the Black Sea would mean Russia's entire naval force would be vulnerable to air attack.
  — NBC News, 14 Apr. 2022
• While past Marine units have been centered on land power, the MLR recognizes that land, air, and sea power are all interlinked and addresses all three.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 6 July 2023
• Stavridis might have sounded the alarm in another nonfiction book, an extension of his two professional memoirs and his authoritative history of sea power.
  — Mark Athitakis, Los Angeles Times, 4 Mar. 2021
• George Washington knew his forces could not win the American Revolutionary War without some measure of sea power.
  — Christopher Magra, The Conversation, 2 June 2026
• Britain’s colonization of Tasmania was a ploy to ensure British dominance in international sea power.
  — Britannica Editors, Encyclopedia Britannica, 19 Mar. 2026
• China continues to flex its fast-growing sea power, as a map tracks at least four groups of Chinese naval vessels operating across the Indo-Pacific in recent days.
  — Ryan Chan, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Dec. 2025
• This cooperation makes sense in purely military terms for Russia, a mutually beneficial project of sea power projection.
  — Colin Flint, The Conversation, 25 Mar. 2025
• Signs of wreckage were first detected three years ago during inspection work when sonar detected a shipwreck 15 meters from an under-sea power cable between Norway and Denmark.
  — Lianne Kolirin, CNN, 8 Sep. 2020
• The other shift, less heralded, was Sea Plan 2000, a bold new idea for reviving American sea power in the face of a Soviet bid for naval supremacy.
  — Arthur Herman, WSJ, 22 July 2018
• China's shipbuilding capacity also increasingly extends to sea power.
  — Micah McCartney, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Aug. 2025
• Impressment, from the British point of view, was a deterrent against such behavior, without which the Royal Navy would suffer wholesale desertions, leading to the collapse of British sea power.
  — Foreign Affairs, 31 Oct. 2012
• Eurasian landmass empires are weaker when compared to the modern Anglo-American archetype of surpassing sea power, free trade with other rich nations, and comparatively limited government.
  — Stephen Kotkin, Foreign Affairs, 6 Apr. 2022
• The two world powers have added the coronavirus crisis to the other battlefronts – from South Asian sea power to trade and 5G technology – in their accelerating global competition.
  — Howard Lafranchi, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Mar. 2020
• Over 2,400 years ago, the historian Thucydides had emphasized the military advantages of sea powers, particularly their ability to control commerce and move troops.
  — Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, 18 Oct. 2017
• China is set to debut at least two of its unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs) during a military parade as the country's sea power gap with the United States continues to narrow.
  — Micah McCartney, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Aug. 2025