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  • noun nautical A body of ocean water such as a channel.

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Examples

  • Tyrion is out there somewhere across the narrow sea.

    Let's talk Tyrion 2008

  • In another moment there came into sight a spread of shipping like floating cities, the little white cliffs of the Needles dwarfed and sunlit, and the grey and glittering waters of the narrow sea.

    When the Sleeper Wakes 2006

  • Even as I stood in the bows of our tiny craft, I could make out the shapes of other much larger vessels on the northern horizon as they came and went between Safaga and the Arabian ports on the eastern shore of the narrow sea.

    River God Smith, Wilbur, 1933- 1993

  • For, although d'Orvilliers, conscious of his superior strength, wished to engage Hardy out of the Channel, he would not hazard a battle in the narrow sea, where the advantage of numbers would have been lost for want of sea-room, and where the navigation would have been dangerous.

    The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria Edward Farr

  • Inadequately it is true, and with a due sense of my short-comings in attempting the task, I have written of the men I have met and lived with across the narrow sea.

    No Man's Land 1912

  • Such was the throng which set the old road smoking in a haze of white dust from Winchester to the narrow sea.

    Sir Nigel Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1906

  • In another moment there came into sight a spread of shipping like floating cities, the little white cliffs of the Needles dwarfed and sunlit, and the grey and glittering waters of the narrow sea.

    When the Sleeper Wakes 1906

  • Reformed Faith across the narrow sea -- Loyalists who were conscious that throughout the generations they had honestly striven to be faithful to their mission -- if ever in their long and stormy history they experienced

    Ulster's Stand For Union Ronald John McNeill 1897

  • Such was the throng which set the old road smoking in a haze of white dust from Winchester to the narrow sea.

    Sir Nigel Arthur Conan Doyle 1894

  • [51] From the Straits of Gibraltar to the mouth of the Tanais, their fleets encountered each other with various success; and a memorable battle was fought in the narrow sea, under the walls of Constantinople.

    History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 6 Edward Gibbon 1765

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