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How to use seaport in a sentence

11 example sentences · noun

Seaport means a town or harbour with facilities for seagoing ships to dock and take on or discharge cargo. Example: “Seaman, sea gauge, sea monster, sea horse, sea level, seaworthy, seaport, seaboard, etc.”

Examples of seaport by meaning

nounA town or harbour with facilities for seagoing ships to dock and take on or discharge cargo.

  • For many years, Oslo had no railway communication with Bergen and Stavanger, the principal seaports on the south-west coast.1956 April, H. A. Vallance, “To Oslo via Stavanger”, in Railway Magazine, page 213

More sentences with seaport

  • Seaman, sea gauge, sea monster, sea horse, sea level, seaworthy, seaport, seaboard, etc.From the entry sea
  • Kaohsiung is the second largest city in Taiwan and has the biggest seaport.1998, Robert Storey, Taiwan (Lonely Planet), 4th edition (travel), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 260. From the entry Kaohsiung
  • Wuchi, on the west-central coast near Taichung, was named as the site for Taiwan’s third major international seaport.1970 February 16, Peter G. Smith, “Taiwan keeps momentum”, in International Commerce, volume 76, number 7, Bureau of International…. From the entry Wuchi
  • They sailed from the great seaport of Cathay: Zaiton (modern Hsia-men), in a fleet of fourteen ships brought together on Kublai's orders.1990, Richard Humble, The Travels of Marco Polo (Exploration Through the Ages), →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 25. From the entry Hsia-men
  • The good stuff in High Tide is the visual loveliness, maybe too lovely for the supposedly depressed seaport of Eden, the film's southern Australia locale.1988 April 16, Elizabeth Pincus, “Taming Upstart Women”, in Gay Community News, page 7. From the entry watery
  • An advanced Mesoamerican civilization of temples, pyramids, ball courts and paved roads sprouted and grew not near a seaport or on a riverway, but deep inland at jungle oases.2007 February 23, Stephen Regenold, “Deep Inside the Yucatán”, in New York Times, retrieved 19 Jan 2014. From the entry riverway
  • Although it lies about 17 miles from the nearest coast, the village was transformed to look like a seaport for the film version of Dr Doolittle.1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 105, Castle Combe. From the entry Bybrook
  • He said international bidding will be called next July 30 for the construction of the outer embankments for Taiwan's fourth international seaport at Wuchi, 14 miles west of Taichung.1973 March 11, “Building of Taichung port to start on time”, in 自由中國週報 [Free China Weekly], volume XIV, number 9, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC…. From the entry Wuchi
  • The “Beautiful Island” wears a necklace of rails and new roads dangling from Taipei, such as the 17-mile MacArthur Expressway linking the capital to the seaport of Chilung.1964 November, “New Look at Changing China”, in National Geographic Magazine, volume 126, number 5, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 641, column 2. From the entry Taipei
  • Steaming up the Adriatic aboard ex-King Farouk's former pleasure boat (now renamed Freedom), Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser arrived last week at the beautiful Yugoslav seaport of Dubrovnik.1958 July 14, “When Soldiers Meet”, in Time. From the entry pleasure boat

Meaning of seaport

  1. noun A town or harbour with facilities for seagoing ships to dock and take on or discharge cargo.

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Questions about seaport in a sentence

How do you use seaport in a sentence?
Seaport is used as a noun. For example: “Seaman, sea gauge, sea monster, sea horse, sea level, seaworthy, seaport, seaboard, etc.”
What is a short sentence with seaport?
“Kaohsiung is the second largest city in Taiwan and has the biggest seaport.”
What does seaport mean?
Seaport means a town or harbour with facilities for seagoing ships to dock and take on or discharge cargo.

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