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More than 80 percent of international trade by volume now arrives by sea, and the largest container vessels are longer than three football fields.
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Shane Croucher
john Feng, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 June 2025
Guests can arrive by road or, more discreetly, by sea.
—Livia Hengel, Forbes.com, 2 June 2025
Filter-feeding fish, including anchovies and sardines, ingest the algae, retain its toxic byproduct and are then eaten by sea lions, seals and dolphins.
—Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 25 Mar. 2025
Readers are likely aware of the transatlantic slave trade, the laying of telegraph lines in the nineteenth century, and the waging of wars by sea; name-checking these undertakings here does not meaningfully open up the book’s aperture.
—Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 19 May 2025
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Shane Croucher
john Feng, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 June 2025
Guests can arrive by road or, more discreetly, by sea.
—Livia Hengel, Forbes.com, 2 June 2025
Filter-feeding fish, including anchovies and sardines, ingest the algae, retain its toxic byproduct and are then eaten by sea lions, seals and dolphins.
—Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 25 Mar. 2025
Readers are likely aware of the transatlantic slave trade, the laying of telegraph lines in the nineteenth century, and the waging of wars by sea; name-checking these undertakings here does not meaningfully open up the book’s aperture.
—Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 19 May 2025
See All Example Sentences for by sea
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“By sea.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/by%20sea. Accessed 9 Jun. 2025.
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