Example sentences for: explorers

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

  • Portuguese explorers then embarked upon Macau (now Macao), the Congo, and various other parts of Africa, including the Sudan.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • It's like the political equivalent of one of those tribes of wholly isolated people that explorers stumble on from time to time in the jungle.

  • When Spanish explorers came to map the area in the 16th century, they named the area baja mar, or shallow seas, as a warning to the galleons that would be sailing through the waters.


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