Sample Sentences for
Black Sea
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  • So is the Gulf of Finland, Alex, and, I believe, the Black Sea.  (source)
  • I was raised in a fishing village on the Black Sea, so I've tied more than my share of knots and filleted more than my share of fish.  (source)
  • "And in time the waters of the Mediterranean became, in fact, the waters of the Black Sea" The vampire sighed.  (source)
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  • About 4,000 years ago, the primitive Indo-Europeans lived in areas bordering on the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea.  (source)
    Black Sea = the inland sea that connects Europe and Asia
  • Wherever he may be in the Black Sea, the Count is hurrying to his destination.  (source)
  • The blue Mediterranean appeared, and by a strange chance, I saw the fiend enter by night and hide himself in a vessel bound for the Black Sea.  (source)
  • Forget the lousy house in Geneva, Kruppie, how about a mansion on the Black Sea?  (source)
  • Two years later, Ahmad had graduated and was crisscrossing the Mediterranean and the Black Sea.  (source)
  • Russia hasn't got a port that doesn't freeze up in the winter except Odessa, and that's on the Black Sea.  (source)
  • Egypt claimed its ships, bound from the Black Sea to Alexandria, were being delayed in the Straits, and charged Turkey with a breach of the Montreaux Convention.  (source)
  • He recognized his bushy eyebrows, his watery gray eyes, his chin and the double chin under it, and he knew him for one of France's great modern revolutionary figures who had led the mutiny of the French Navy in the Black Sea.  (source)
  • —It's the Black Sea in a midnight gale.  (source)
  • 1346: Tartars send soldiers infected with the plague over the wall in the siege of Caffa on the Black Sea.  (source)
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  • Behind them came the bulk of the army—a black sea of creepy-crawlies.  (source)
    black sea = any dark sea
  • It was floating on a black sea.  (source)
  • She floated, serene and at peace, on a black sea that knew no shore.  (source)
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  • The lights were as beacons in a black sea.  (source)
    black sea = any dark sea
  • As I sat on the black beach, exhausted and covered in oil, I stared at the sun setting over a black sea and felt like it was the end of the world.  (source)
  • If the earth had no atmosphere, Aziza had said a little breathlessly, the sky wouldn't be blue at all but a pitch-black sea and the sun a big bright star in the dark "Is Aziza coming home with us this time?"  (source)
  • The black sea smoothed.  (source)
  • I kept this morbid thought to myself for as long as I could, but when the beacon disappeared a third time and we looked for it so long we couldn't even be sure what section of the rolling black sea it had disappeared from, I shouted, "We have to go back!"  (source)
  • The valley below was as dark as a black sea.  (source)
  • The wind had sunk to about forty miles an hour from the east, and there was no snow falling as we took off through a black sea fog, promptly lost sight of Churchill, and circled into the northwest.  (source)
  • It looked first like a black mist creeping on the ground, then like the stormy waves of a black sea rising higher and higher as it came on, and then, at last, like what it was woods on the move.  (source)
  • Sing with me, the duende cries, sing for the black sea that awaits your voice.  (source)
  • He watched the lights that played on the still, black sea, from the sky and the shore.  (source)
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