Example sentences for: mariner

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

  • In all, aside from the dictionaries, Jeans lists twenty-eight books plus fifteen of Patrick O'Brian's novels; no mention is made of the Mariner's Mirror , the journal of the Society of Nautical Research, or of other essential source materials.

  • On the radio, Mariner announcer Dave Niehaus marveled, "A high fly ball, belted, and I mean belted , deep to left field, into the upper deck!

  • In Seattle, Mariner management has demanded an operable roof even though the city has the driest weather in MLB outside California.

  • While we're about it, we should not overlook Coleridge's poem, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1798), not “Rhyme,” or Byron's Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (1811), not “Child,” or Ruskin's Arrows of the Chace (1880), not “Chase.”

  • But there are genuine regionalism lurking in both the written and the spoken language: corinna (an Aboriginal name for the Tasmanian tiger), mariner (a corruption of the Aboriginal merrina for a seashell used as a physical ornament), quoib (an Aboriginal term for a wombat), and wing-wang (again an Aboriginal term, this time for a fiery piece of lighted bark thrown by Aborigines).


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