6 sentences with 'oceans'
Example sentences and phrases with the word oceans and other words derived from it.
• « Nations should also consider at least one large reserve in each of the world's oceans where human activities are to be prohibited. These ocean reserves would literally be nurseries for fish to reproduce. »
• « While fleets patrolled the rivers and oceans, these garrisons controlled access to the empire. »
• « While France remained the most powerful kingdom on the European continent, there were no longer any serious rivals to Britain on the oceans, allowing it to become the world's predominant imperial power in the 19th century. »
• « It soon became economically viable to ship grain from the United States or Russia across the oceans to reach European markets using the fast steamships. »
• « An infinite number of microscopic beings populate the surface of the oceans, fluctuating with the waves and being transported by ocean currents. These transparent creatures form the plankton, the fundamental food of many fish and the sustainer of the aquatic ecosystem. »
• « But on Earth, where there was no life then, the carbon dioxide quickly dissolved in the huge oceans of our planet, giving rise to carbonic acid that melted into the rocky soil of the seas and eventually created what we call carbonaceous rocks today. »