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Example sentences for: merchant

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Well, yes--he attended the Merchant Marine Academy and was in the Naval Reserves, which (as one officer pointed out) meant he had experience with guns.
Women have traditionally formed the majority of the congregation, praying for the protection of their fathers, husbands, and sons while they were away at sea in merchant fleets, diving for sponges, or working in lands far away.
Arriving in New York in late 1789, he was referred to Moses Brown in Providence, a prominent merchant who had established a company, Almy and Brown, to develop “frame or water spinning.”
The son of a Parisian porcelain merchant, Schoelcher was inspired to wage a 15-year struggle to free the slaves by what he saw on three trips to the Caribbean.
Walton’s successful innovations placed enormous pressure on other mass merchant retailers to alter their practices along similar lines.