Example sentences for: sailors

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

  • Wander the decks and talk to the actors who play the parts of sailors and pilgrims.

  • Experienced sailors in search of a more seaworthy craft should ask at the local yacht harbor.

  • For an example of careful word choice, take note of the Pentagon Public Affairs Office's suggestion that all references to "seamen" be changed to "sailors."

  • The waters at the western extreme of the Algarve were all that was known to sailors.

  • Jones wrote that, “by these means and a share of his prizes, having acquired a small estate, he [Alexander McDougal] quitted the sea and settled in New York, where he kept what is known among sailors by the name of a `slop-shop.


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