Sentence examples for oceanic from inspiring English sources
'oceanic' is a correct and usable word in written English
You can use it when you want to describe something that is related to the ocean, such as its size, beauty, creatures, or depths. Example sentence: The oceanic depths of the sea are still largely a mystery to us.
adjective
Of or relating to the ocean.
The places where they move away from each other are the "spreading ridges" in the oceans along which new oceanic crust thinner and denser than that of which the continental bits of plates are composed is made.
Most ocean-floor craters, then, will have vanished.Continental crust, being lighter than oceanic crust, does not sink so easily back into Earth's interior.
But of course thousands of islands made by natural upheaval, and course includes those closer to home – the cluster we call the UK and Ireland, which though are not desert, oceanic or tropical, are continental islands, special in their own form of isolation and interesting genetic mix.
Britain exports more to Ireland than to Brazil, Russia, India and China put together: a situation that the chancellor of the exchequer, George Osborne, calls a road to "economic irrelevance".Yet dreams of a swashbuckling, oceanic future carry risks, notably of bad policymaking towards Europe.
Obviously São Paulo is New York the commercial, industrial and financial capital; a city that never sleeps; a 24-hour traffic jam; a gaudy megacity that works; "an oceanic sprawl" (to quote Norman Gall of the city's Fernand Braudel Institute).
Rags to riches A sweet result ReprintsIn the 1980s ecologists looking for organisms that could be used as indicators of oceanic pollution took a keen interest in ragworms.
A bridge is being built over the San Juan river, connecting Nicaragua with Costa Rica and, most controversially, work has started on an inter-oceanic canal to rival Panama's, cutting through Lake Nicaragua on a 173-mile journey between the Caribbean and the Pacific.
ON DECEMBER 22nd an odd couple Nicaragua's left-wing government and a Chinese-born telecoms magnate say they will begin the realisation of a dream that has captivated Nicaraguans for generations: the construction of an inter-oceanic canal to rival Panama's.
But the development of trans-oceanic cables put it back on the map, providing that the map was one of electronic communications.
Yet that was written in strait-laced America when finance was still firmly under the knuckle of Depression-era regulation and money rarely travelled east of the Statue of Liberty.Today's financial world looks rather more like the era of rootless, trans-oceanic finance that Kreuger entered when he first arrived by ship in New York in 1900, with $100 in his pocket.
Let's hope they are built for trans-oceanic travel.
