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How to use maritime in a sentence

37 example sentences · adjective

Maritime means relating to or connected with the sea or its uses (as navigation, commerce, etc.). Example: “I enjoy maritime activities such as yachting and deep sea diving.”

Examples of maritime by meaning

adjectiveRelating to or connected with the sea or its uses (as navigation, commerce, etc.).

  • I enjoy maritime activities such as yachting and deep sea diving.
  • Mystic’s maritime history dates to its days as a shipbuilding center, a time well preserved at the Mystic Seaport Museum, the world’s leading and largest of its kind, home to the famed 1800s whaleship, Charles W.2017 April 2, Tara Donaldson, “5 quiet U.S. coastal towns that offer a seaside escape”, in CNN

adjectiveBordering on the sea; living near the seacoast; coastal.

  • the maritime states; a maritime people

adjectiveInhabiting the seashore; living coastwise; littoral. (distinguished from marine).

  • a maritime bird or animal

More sentences with maritime

  • Britain is no longer the maritime power that it once was.From the entry power
  • The maritime court spent weeks reviewing the legality of the cargo jettison during the storm.From the entry jettison
  • The company was a player in the maritime insurance arena.From the entry arena
  • Almost every maritime country has some kind of bluewater navy.From the entry bluewater
  • In the first scenario, a minor skirmish escalated into a multiweek maritime blockade of Taiwan by China.2026 January 19, Bonnie S. Glaser, Zack Cooper, “A Failed Chinese Invasion of Taiwan Would Be Disastrous for Xi Jinping”, in Foreign…. From the entry de-escalate
  • Maritime Transport runs a train from the bottler of Cola-Cola in Tilbury, six days a week.2023 April 19, Paul Clifton, “Rail is clearly key to our future”, in RAIL, number 981, page 32. From the entry bottler
  • Folklore, nocturnal action and assignation, marine and maritime life: all would be otherwise.2019, Oliver Morton, The Moon: A History for the Future, The Economist Books, →ISBN, →LCCN. From the entry moonless
  • In this way, the court ensured an equitable result of the maritime boundary between Romania and Ukraine.2013 June, Michael A. McDevitt, Catherine K. Lea, Japan's Territorial Disputes: CNA Maritime Asia Project, Workshop Three, CNA, →OCLC…. From the entry Snake Island
  • The building itself is worth a squizz; its modern metal forms and structures evoke maritime themes.2002, Chris Rowthorn, Alex Landragin, Kate Daly, Victoria, Lonely Planet, page 297. From the entry squizz
  • The Argentine drive for great power status has an important maritime dimension.1988, Michael a Morris, The Strait of Magellan, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, →ISBN, page 160. From the entry Argentine Sea
  • Morever the prohibition of maritime trade along the coastline of Guangdong was to be strictly enforced.1982, Emily Byrne Curtis, “Snuff and Chinese Snuff Bottles: An Historical View”, in Chinese Snuff Bottles: The Edward Choate O'Dell…. From the entry Aomen
  • Instead, maritime intermodal flows have shown steady growth.2024 January 10, 'Industry Insider', “Success built on liberalisation and market freedom”, in RAIL, number 1000, page 69. From the entry recognition
  • Longstanding maritime traditions and extensive coastlines mean that seafood also plays a major role in Scandi cuisine, and in my baking.2012, Signe Johansen, Scandilicious Baking, Hachette UK, →ISBN. From the entry Scandi
  • This species is found in both maritime and continental climates.1999, Ernest Small, Paul M. Catling, “Oplopanax horridus (J. E. Smith) Miq. Devil’s Club”, in P. B. Cavers, editor, Canadian Medicinal…. From the entry understory
  • Beijing announced last month that it was building a maritime observation station on Yungshu Reef in the archipelago.1988 July 6, Michael Richardson, “China's Claims to Spratly Islands Raise Concerns of Southeast Asians”, in International Herald Tribune…. From the entry Yungshu
  • The maritime strikers have “plumbered up” the shipping situation to the extent that the demand far exceeds the supplies.1963 January 24, Patty Johnson, “Marketwise: Hurry! Get in before prices change!”, in Waterloo Daily Courier, Waterloo, Ia., →OCLC, page…. From the entry plumber up
  • There was absolutely nothing about the body to suggest that it might possibly in life have known a maritime experience.1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp.…. From the entry seafaring
  • People call any written universal language a "pasigraphy" ; thus the international code of maritime signals is a "pasigraphy."1912, Couturat, “For Logistics”, in Philip Edward Bertrand Jourdain, transl., The Monist, volume XXII, number 4, The Open Court Publishing…. From the entry pasigraphy
  • The Culture department has decided to dedicate the theme pavilion of the Cuttack’s historic maritime festival to classical Odia language this year.2025 October 10, “Balijatra to celebrate classical Odia language, its authors in 2025”, in The New Indian Express. From the entry Odia
  • Lunday also wrote in the release that the agency would target the "maritime border between Texas and Mexico in the Gulf of America."2025 January 21, Louis Casiano, quoting Kevin Lunday, “Coast Guard surging assets to Gulf of America, other waterways to support Trump’s…. From the entry Gulf of America
  • Homan, a senior immigration official in his last administration, as the “border czar” in charge of the nation’s borders and its maritime and aviation security.2024 November 11, Mike Ives, “Trump Names Thomas Homan ‘Border Czar’ With a Wide Portfolio”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry border czar
  • Maritime Transport has installed two new straddle carrier cranes at Birmingham Intermodal Freight Terminal, as it continues to expand its rail operations.2019 November 6, “News”, in Rail, page 21. From the entry straddle carrier
  • This group includes none of the countries most affected by China's expanded maritime activities, and it features those reliant on Chinese aid or trade.2016 July 12, James Fallows, “David vs. Goliath in the South China Sea: David Wins, at Least This Round”, in The Atlantic, Washington…. From the entry foreseeability
  • He turned and started toward the forehouse, smiling to himself, rather surprised at the ease with which he had adapted to the maritime twenty-four-hour clock.2009, Roger A. Naylor, The Cobra Conspiracy - Page 285. From the entry forehouse
  • From the point of view of the tellurocracy versus thalassocracy opposition a maritime power (the US) may entrench itself in the IRAFPAK zone.2000, Farhad Tolipov, “Geopolitical Stalemate in Afghanistan”, in Central Asia and the Caucasus. From the entry tellurocracy
  • The treaty which he squeezed from the Emperor at Peking surrendered the jointly administered maritime province east of the Ussuri River to Russia.1949, Patrick A. McCarran, “Russian Imperialism in China”, in Congressional Record, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, page…. From the entry Maritime Province
  • In a province with a long and dangerous maritime history, the Baltic's grounding in the roiling shallows of Cedar Cove last February is a story Newfoundlanders retell with incredulity.2025 December 29, Lindsay Jones, “A Newfoundland winter brings new risks to Coast Guard's biggest-ever operation. Crews at mercy of the…. From the entry container
  • For the term fish in the relation above, it is not clear whether the maritime animal, a part of a ship's mast or a card game is meant.2010, Christian M. Meyer, Iryna Gurevych, “Worth Its Weight in Gold or Yet Another Resource – A Comparative Study of Wiktionary…. From the entry wiktionary
  • We find another instance of the maritime thrust in the controversial "bioceanic" approach, a proposal whereby Chile exercises dominance in the South Pacific and Argentina controls the South Atlantic.2010 July 22, Philip Kelly, Checkerboards and Shatterbelts: The Geopolitics of South America, University of Texas Press, →ISBN, page 68. From the entry bioceanic
  • Ando’s maritime museum design borrows from the maritime history of the emirates, with a reflective surface merging sea and land and a shiplike interior with floating decks.2007 February 1, Hassan Fattah, “Celebrity Architects Reveal a Daring Cultural Xanadu for the Arab World”, in New York Times. From the entry shiplike
  • Greatness on the continent would be complemented by greatness at sea, with the Argentine Sea indicating Argentine's legitimate, natural maritime sphere of interest as a great power.1988, Michael a Morris, The Strait of Magellan, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, →ISBN, page 160. From the entry Argentine Sea
  • Turning to artificial intelligence and smart tech to overhaul maritime safety, his company Zelim is working on a trio of life-saving technologies — including an autonomous, unmanned lifeboat called “Guardian.”2023 November 13, Rebecca Cairns, “This unmanned lifeboat could rescue drowning people on its own”, in CNN. From the entry unmanned
  • Cucumber left for half a day, with red peppers and soy sauce and a tidge of sea salt (which tastes nice) comes through fierce and maritime as a Yangtse pirate.1978, Colin Tudge, Cold turkey, New Scientist, 21-28 December 1978. From the entry tidge

Meaning of maritime

  1. adjective Relating to or connected with the sea or its uses (as navigation, commerce, etc.).
  2. adjective Bordering on the sea; living near the seacoast; coastal.
  3. adjective Inhabiting the seashore; living coastwise; littoral. (distinguished from marine).

Full definition of maritime

Questions about maritime in a sentence

How do you use maritime in a sentence?
Maritime is used as an adjective. For example: “I enjoy maritime activities such as yachting and deep sea diving.”
What is a short sentence with maritime?
“a maritime bird or animal”
What does maritime mean?
Maritime means relating to or connected with the sea or its uses (as navigation, commerce, etc.).

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Adapted from Wiktionary: maritime (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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