How do you use the word "ocean" in a sentence?

Q: How do you use the word "ocean" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "ocean": My eyes are an ocean in which my dreams are reflected. Has a change in ocean currents occurred?

Ocean Meaning

/ˈəʊ.ʃən/

Definition, CEFR level A2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

nounOne of the large bodies of water separating the continents.

nounWater belonging to an ocean.

Sentence Examples

My eyes are an ocean in which my dreams are reflected.

Has a change in ocean currents occurred?

The ship was dredged from the depths of the ocean.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

sea

Antonyms:

None

CEFR Practice Quiz

The ____ covers more than seventy percent of the Earth.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

The vast ____ stretched out before them, its deep blue waters meeting the horizon in the distance.

Word Origin & History

From Middle English *ocean, occean, occian, occyan, from Old French occean (later reborrowed or reinforced by Middle French ocean), from Latin Ōceanus, originally from Ancient Greek Ὠκεανός (Ōkeanós, “Oceanus”, a water deity). Displaced native Old English gārseċġ. Also commonly referred to as the ocean sea, the sea of ocean (compare Latin mare ōceanum; Old French mer oceane, occeanne mer). Compare Saterland Frisian Oceoan (“ocean”), West Frisian oseaan (“ocean”), Dutch oceaan (“ocean”), German Low German Ozeaan (“ocean”), German Ozean (“ocean”), Danish ocean (“ocean”), Swedish ocean (“ocean”), French océan (“ocean”), Italian oceano (“ocean”). Doublet of Oceanus/Okeanos.

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"On the present occasion, Traddles was so hemmed in by the pagoda and the guitar-case, and Dora’s flower-painting, and my writing-table, that I had serious doubts of the possibility of his using his knife and fork; but he protested, with his own good-humour, ‘Oceans of room, Copperfield! I assure you, Oceans!’" — 1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1850, →OCLC:

"Poison Ivy, Lord,'ll make you itch You're gonna need an ocean Of calamine lotion You'll be scratchin' like a hound The minute you start to mess around" — 1959, “Poison Ivy”, Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller (lyrics), performed by The Coasters:

"'Ocean still isn't sleeping through the night.' I don't blame her. She's probably traumatised by her ridiculous name." — 2019 March 5, Elly Griffiths, The Stranger Diaries, Houghton Mifflin, →ISBN, page 25:

"But he must ever watch the northern Bear, Who from her frozen height with jealous eye Confronts the Dog and the Hunter in the south, And is alone not dipt in Ocean's stream." — 1869, Matthew Arnold, Early Poems, Narrative Poems and Sonnets, London: Macmillan and Co., published 1885, page 150:

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