How to Use seaport in a Sentence

seaport

noun
  • Boston is a major seaport in the northeastern U.S.
  • Learn about the mills, the seaport, the Gold Rush and how the region fared through two world wars.
    Scott McMurren, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Feb. 2022
  • The 81-foot schooner takes guests around the nearby islands and through the seaport.
    Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 17 May 2023
  • This bustling seaport is one of the largest cities in Canada.
    Lauren Eckert, National Geographic, 27 June 2019
  • But this year may well be a turning point for the seaport.
    Jane Margolies, New York Times, 22 May 2018
  • The Danube ports can’t handle the same volume as seaports.
    Hanna Arhirova, Chicago Tribune, 30 July 2023
  • The floods collapsed a part of the RN1 road that links Kinshasa to Matadi, the country’s main seaport.
    Sammy Westfall, Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2022
  • One female green turtle was struck by a ship just down the road, near the world’s ninth busiest seaport.
    Craig Welch, National Geographic, 20 Sep. 2019
  • The boat lift also served as a reminder that New York City was and remains a seaport.
    John Hanc, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Sep. 2021
  • Piano was born to a family of builders in the Italian seaport of Genoa.
    Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2021
  • The crash disrupted marine traffic at the seaport, which is among the largest in the Mid-Atlantic.
    Kevin Shalvey, ABC News, 19 May 2024
  • The Golden Ray was stuck in a shipping channel, closing one of the busiest US seaports.
    BostonGlobe.com, 10 Sep. 2019
  • Some of the seaport’s new offerings will be more rarefied than the souvenir shops of old.
    Jane Margolies, New York Times, 22 May 2018
  • Russian troops launched a missile attack on the Olvia seaport in the Mykolaiv Oblast.
    Katya Soldak, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2022
  • The city’s loss also deprives Ukraine of a vital seaport.
    Oleksandr Stashevskyi, BostonGlobe.com, 20 May 2022
  • The city's loss also deprives Ukraine of a vital seaport.
    Arkansas Online, 21 May 2022
  • Libyan seaports near Tripoli are just 180 miles from the Italian island of Lampedusa.
    Alissa J. Rubin, New York Times, 29 May 2018
  • The port is one of the busiest U.S. seaports for shipping automobiles.
    Fox News, 9 Sep. 2019
  • And a harbor that would make Caesarea the most dominant seaport in the region.
    National Geographic, 15 Oct. 2019
  • The main airport is in Bari, the region’s capital and a major seaport.
    Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 30 May 2024
  • The days of wooden shipbuilding are over, but still, Benicia is a seaport.
    Carl Nolte, San Francisco Chronicle, 23 Apr. 2021
  • This is the world’s biggest seaport outside Asia—25 miles, nearly twice the length of Manhattan, from end to end.
    Vivienne Walt, Fortune, 5 Aug. 2022
  • The explosion in Beirut hit the city's seaport and was reportedly felt 150 miles away.
    Alexia Fernandez, PEOPLE.com, 6 Aug. 2020
  • For container shipments from overseas, the assets can even be tracked at the seaport.
    Forbes, 7 June 2021
  • For Rotterdam, Europe’s largest seaport, 10% of its business is with the U.K.
    Max Colchester, WSJ, 24 Dec. 2020
  • The protesters demand free movement in and out of Gaza, free use of the Gaza seaport, and unrestricted trade in goods.
    Ryan Cooper, The Week, 10 Feb. 2019
  • Over the past 200 years the island has been home to a Mexican fort, then a busy seaport for early Texas farmers, who shipped out cotton.
    Christopher Helman, Forbes, 11 June 2021
  • There are falling down old hotels, beached boats, and towns like Tomales, once a seaport and a rival of San Rafael to become the county seat.
    Carl Nolte, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 Sep. 2021
  • In fact, a tiny queen conch population has been thriving for years near the busy Port Everglades seaport in Fort Lauderdale.
    Jenny Staletovich, Sun Sentinel, 15 July 2024
  • In Athens, participants were tasked with keeping a baton of reeds aflame while racing in relay teams from a seaport to the Acropolis.
    Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 July 2024

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