Sentence examples for ocean crossing from inspiring English sources

The event that started to change Saladrigas's thinking was another disastrous and well-publicized ocean crossing.

In the Pacific, it also brings to mind images of people making desperate ocean crossing to gain entry to Australia.

Then in one memorable day, we drove, perched on the roof-rack of our Landcruiser, from the Hadramawt to the Indian Ocean, crossing 300km of cold, stony steppe.

M R. GELLMAN explains this moral disagreement with Mr. Kennan by an analogy with the captain of a ship about to make an ocean crossing.

Since all the Whitbread 60 sailboats are similar in speed, an early lead is an advantage, even during a two-week ocean crossing.

A total solar eclipse occurred on 21 August 2017, with the path of totality starting over the North Pacific Ocean, crossing North-America and ending over the Mid-Atlantic Ocean slightly North of the equator.

Columbus and the Vikings were mere ocean-crossing latecomers, according to a leading American anthropologist.

At the Global Marine Terminal in Bayonne, enormous ocean-crossing container ships are unloaded by cranes that look something like praying mantises.

American Airlines, for instance, ordered 600 planes for the next decade to replace its aging fleet, but the bulk of those are single-aisle planes for the domestic market, not twin-aisle ocean-crossing giants.

This juxtaposition is related to the larger way in which the novel plays with the gap between expectation and reality, most vigorously dramatized in Samad's offspring, the "first descendants of the great ocean-crossing experiment".

The airline, a favorite of business travelers on long ocean-crossing flights, has been one of the world's tightest-run ships.