How to Use seaborne in a Sentence

seaborne

adjective

• One third of the world’s seaborne oil passes through it.
  — Jomana Karadsheh, CNN, 23 Jan. 2023
• Roughly a third of the world’s seaborne oil trade goes through the Strait of Hormuz.
  — Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 14 June 2019
• The passage accounts for as much as 13% of seaborne trade.
  — Benoit Faucon, WSJ, 29 July 2021
• More than a third of the world’s seaborne crude-oil transits come through the Persian Gulf.
  — Dion Nissenbaum, WSJ, 30 May 2023
• The spell of seaborne luxury is cast, and the sailing is, well, smooth.
  — Veronique De Turenne, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Aug. 2017
• The three countries combined import about one-third of the world’s seaborne crude oil.
  — Fortune, 11 Aug. 2017
• The Strait accounts for about a third of the world’s seaborne oil flows, and Brent crude rallied as much as 2.4% on Friday’s news.
  — Alex Morales, Time, 21 July 2019
• To track the problem, researchers are now homing in on these seaborne flecks from more than 300 miles away—in space.
  — Lauren J. Young, Scientific American, 26 Apr. 2023
• The canal connects the Mediterranean and Red Seas and accounts for as much as 13% of seaborne trade and about 10% of maritime shipments of oil.
  — Jennifer Smith, WSJ, 28 Mar. 2021
• Djibouti stands at the entrance to the Red Sea, which about 12% of all seaborne trade traverses on scores of ships using the Suez Canal.
  — Costas Paris, WSJ, 21 Feb. 2019
• Roughly a third of the world’s seaborne oil is shipped via the strait, some of which falls within Iranian waters.
  — Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 19 July 2019
• Most humans are landlubbers, after all—though many of our foods and jobs are tied to seaborne economies.
  — National Geographic, 24 Apr. 2019
• On July 17, the Kerch bridge was hit again, this time by an unmanned seaborne vehicle.
  — Oleksandr Chubko, New York Times, 22 Oct. 2023
• But since the bulk of its oil imports are seaborne, there’s the risk of China being cut off from its oil supplies in the event of a wartime naval blockade.
  — Mary Hui, Quartz, 23 Mar. 2022
• On Monday, the European Union slapped a ban on all seaborne imports of Russian oil.
  — Max Zahn, ABC News, 5 Dec. 2022
• Europe should also work to boost Ukrainian exports by rail, even if that would not make up for seaborne routes.
  — Frida Ghitis, CNN, 3 June 2022
• China imports more than 70% of seaborne iron ore to feed its steel industry, the world’s biggest.
  — Krystal Chia, Bloomberg.com, 27 Sep. 2020
• The Strait of Hormuz is a strategic waterway for the seaborne transportation of about a fifth of the world's global crude oil exports.
  — Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, 18 July 2019
• The early years of the 20th century saw the concept of seaborne aeronautics evolve quickly.
  — Matthew Moss, Popular Mechanics, 22 May 2018
• That compares with seaborne volumes of 1.57 million barrels a day from its Baltic, Black Sea and Arctic ports.
  — Ewa Krukowska, BostonGlobe.com, 30 May 2022
• Italy has rescued hundreds of thousands of seaborne migrants since 2013.
  — Giovanni Legorano, WSJ, 19 Mar. 2018
• The waterway connects the Mediterranean and Red Seas and carries as much as 13% of global maritime trade and 10% of seaborne oil shipments.
  — Jennifer Smith, WSJ, 31 Mar. 2021
• The Russian retreat reduced the threat of a seaborne Russian attack on Odesa and helped pave the way for a deal to resume Ukrainian grain exports.
  — Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 9 July 2023
• The country secured a partial exemption from the E.U. ban on seaborne crude imports from Russia.
  — Julian Lee, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Oct. 2022
• Oil prices have risen sharply in the past few days on fears that potential attacks in the Strait of Hormuz, through which over a third of the world’s seaborne crude is shipped, will disrupt global supply.
  — Stephanie Yang, WSJ, 21 June 2019
• More than half of the vessels are very large crude carriers, the workhorses of seaborne oil trade, which can move up to two million barrels each in a single sailing.
  — Costas Paris, WSJ, 12 Aug. 2020
• Sicily had been the largest seaborne invasion of anywhere ever, and Normandy 11 months later would dwarf it.
  — Bartle Bull, WSJ, 16 Dec. 2020
• Yet Brent crude, the benchmark for pricing much of the world’s seaborne crude, is itself partly priced on the flow of crude from 80 fields that feed the Forties pipeline, magnifying the impact.
  — The Economist, 14 Dec. 2017
• At any given moment, a flotilla of seaborne vessels is carrying crude oil from one point to another around the globe.
  — Michael E. Webber, The Conversation, 29 Apr. 2022
• The canal handles something like 10% of seaborne trade, spanning everything from finished goods to oil, gas, and dry-bulk commodities.
  — Alex Longley, Fortune, 25 Mar. 2021

Last Updated: 28 May 2024