Example sentences for: nautical

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

  • In nautical jargon, the monkey was a tray-like metal casting with round indentations arranged in a square pattern.

  • Farmer & Henley, Slang and its Analogues , defines the term as “a soldier's bastard,” although the nautical connotation occurs in a reference to The Sailor's Wordbook , which refers to women who sailed with their husbands, not to loose women.

  • The mastaba of Princess Idut has exceptional nautical scenes and you’ll also catch sight of the name of a tomb robber — Ahmed the Carpenter — who couldn’t resist letting the world know about his visit.

  • (Hierarchy, for instance, is the building of large structures out of small ones, be they nautical charts out of soundings or sentences out of morphemes.)

  • The first (to which most of us know the answer, I suppose, but that makes it no less legitimate) is, What is the nautical term for the left and right sides of a boat?


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