Example sentences for: nautical

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

  • Aside from the unfortunate quotation, which hardly seems nautical at all, hogwash is ordinary English, which, it may be assumed, (English-speaking) sailors used as a medium in which to couch their nauticalisms.

  • Lucaya is set on a fine sandy beach and the expansive Port Lucaya marina gives the whole resort a very nautical feel.

  • The problem is that although many such expressions have been included in Ship to Shore, many that were not nautical have also been listed.

  • Those that are on the ropes for this revision, include fuck-plug a contraceptive diaphragm, with a single example from a college student in 1984, a term not subsequently found despite wide questioning and extensive database searching; fuck 5.b. to trifle or interfere with (that is, the usual sense of fuck with , but without the with), found in a single example from a movie; and friggin in the rigging , a nautical expression for loafing on duty, which is too uninteresting a figurative sense even if it does have some currency beyond the single oral example we have found.

  • But I am aware that stockmen's vocabulary varies considerably around the English-speaking world, much more I imagine than, say, nautical, or culinary, or musical terms do.


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