Example sentences for: sailor

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

  • Just published and already a best seller, The Perfect Storm is said to be "thrilling--a boat ride into and (for us) out of a watery hell" (Anthony Bailey, the New York Times Book Review ). Reviews cite the book's eclecticism: It combines a lucid explanation of the storm's complex meteorology, gritty descriptions of sailor bars and, most compellingly, a reconstruction of the ship's final minutes.

  • And a Tok Pisin version of Little Red Riding Hood, told me some years ago by an old China Sea sailor, remains to this day one of the most hilarious monologues I have ever heard.

  • 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 RNC says Gore "spends money" on Wolf "like a drunken sailor in port."

  • 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.


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