seas
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A body was found after a seven-hour search in what the coastguard described as 'very rough' seas.
Addressing the men of the task group from Kitty Hawk, President Kennedy told them that, as in the past, control of the seas still means security, peace and ultimate victory.
Across the regional waters, a north-northwest swell will result in choppy seas to six feet across the near shore Atlantic waters and local passages.
A fire on April 8 had disabled the submarine and it was being towed in rough seas.
A literal translation of the French title would end in the plural "seas", thus implying the " seven seas " through which the characters of the novel travel; however, the early English translations of the title used "sea", meaning the ocean in general.
Aldous, p. 263 The public saw the venture as a daring British statement of its dominance of the seas.