Example sentences for: mariners

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

  • Granted, this home to Mariners baseball, Seahawks football, and everybody's favorite tractor-pulls is plug-ugly inside and out.

  • A visit begins with a tour of the Cuarto del Almirante (the Admiral’s Apartments), where a painting of the Virgen de los Mareantes (Virgin of the Mariners) in the chapel shows Columbus sheltered beneath the Virgin’s cloak.

  • The theory that the horse latitudes were so named because mariners becalmed there threw overboard the horses they were transporting because they died of thirst or starved seems almost impossible: in order for such an event to have given rise to horse latitudes it would have to have recurred many times, and it is hard to believe that 16th- and 17th-century mariners were so improvident as to have allowed that to happen very often.

  • Pilots of the ferries on Narragansett Bay, like all mariners, had ideal opportunities to observe meteorological events such as sea turns and waterspouts.

  • The bodies had originally been buried in an old mariners' cemetery, but in 1948, the Citadel built a stadium on the site without properly exhuming the graves, which were finally discovered this summer by a neo-Confederate group.


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