Example sentences for: sailor

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

  • They are a sailor’s paradise because the numerous safe anchorages and bays have been enhanced in modern times by comprehensive back-up facilities for sailors.

  • Pissarro, though Walcott doesn't mention it, was a native of the small Jewish community in St. Thomas, in the Virgin Islands, while the 17-year-old Manet traveled the Caribbean as a sailor in training.

  • A British sailor gave her the name “Old Ironsides,” as cannon balls skimmed off her copper sheathed gunwales and he marveled at her apparent indestructibility.

  • Invigorated à la Popeye the Sailor Man, he proceeded to capture the enemy regiment single-handedly.

  • The sailor has declined to discuss his sexual orientation, and so the coverage of the story has dwelt on the electronic privacy issue, but this episode is also relevant to the Navy's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy.


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