Sentence examples for upon the ocean from inspiring English sources

More than half the working population depends upon the ocean for its livelihood.

Houses and trees desired something more and in summer green meadows covered the volcanic planet like an overcoat tossed upon the ocean.

It is as if once upon the ocean, a non-place, mariners were stripped of their allegiance to locale and its legacies to them.

The last entry is for Friday, October 8th, when Andrée wrote that bad weather kept them in the tent all day: "It feels fine to be able to sleep here on fast land as a contrast with the drifting ice out upon the ocean where we constantly heard the cracking, grinding, and din.

But isn't it a splendid sight to stand upon the lofty parapets by the side of a gun as large as Barnstead Meeting house and look off upon the ocean and see first a large ocean steamship with every sail set and puffing & blowing away like a Methodist preacher, moving on the silvery surface of the water with all the majesty of a monarch".

"Go gaze upon the ocean and take in its vastness," the Minnesota congressman suggested.

And I've barely touched upon the oceans of data which make the case for Democrats here.

What becomes of this black carbon upon entering the ocean, however, is still unknown.

Upon reaching the ocean, convection began to reform near the circulation, and Fanele re-attained tropical storm status.

"Slightly more than half of all plastic is negatively buoyant, meaning that it will sink upon reaching the ocean, either into the near-shore sediment environment or to the ocean floor," she explains.

Upon learning that the ocean is not a beach but a body of water that touches many countries — including Vietnam and the United States — she renamed her son.