Example sentences for: explorers

How can you use “explorers” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • But there’s a fascinating reality “North of 60,” as locals call the territories above the 60° latitude, ignored until recently by everybody but the Inuit and other native people who live there, plus a few explorers and miners.

  • “Bald point,” as French explorers dubbed it, is the southern half of a 20-km (12-mile) sandspit jutting out into Lake Erie.

  • On Eleuthera the explorers dug a fresh-water well — at a spot now known as “Spanish Wells” — which was used to replenish the supplies of water on their ships before they began the long journey back to Europe with their cargoes of South American gold.

  • Prince Henry the Navigator established his legendary Navigation School along Portugal’s southern coast (financing expeditions with royalties from the Algarve fishing industry), and intrepid explorers set out in caravels from Lagos and Sagres.

  • One reason for this diversity is the custom of English-speaking explorers and pioneers in a new land to adopt the native name for unfamiliar plants, animals, and things.


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