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Example sentences for: merchant

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The New York Crimes (Times, most Timeses are Slimeses, but important people at the Times were delighted when Reagan administration arms merchant Oliver North called it the Crimes, so it stuck).
The merchant marine has become "the sweatshop of the high seas."
It showed only one major donor, and he had served in the Merchant Marine in World War II.
But a long time ago somebody--I wouldn't be surprised if it were a Phoenician tin merchant in the first millennium B.C.--realized that a clever man with sufficiently deep pockets could basically hold such a market up for ransom.
Meanwhile, by the middle of the 17th century, Dutch and British armed merchant ships had broken through the Portuguese blockade to set up their East India Companies on both coasts.