Example sentences for: sailors

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

  • In keeping with this easy-going attitude, the city was originally known as Gastown, after saloon-keeper “Gassy Jack” Deighton, who looked after the needs of pioneer lumbermen and sailors in the 1860s.

  • It is the largest rock in a collection of over twenty that attract sailors and divers from the main island.

  • ) Cagney's first showbiz gig was unplanned and inauspicious: a musical revue about sailors in drag.

  • Over the millennia, an arched hole had been created here by the pounding of the waves of the Atlantic; known as the Glass Window, this opening made it possible for sailors on the Exuma Sound to see “through the island” to the Atlantic.

  • The first recorded Europeans to arrive in the Yucatán, in 1511, were doubly unfortunate: a group of Spanish sailors survived a shipwreck on the coast of what is now Quintana Roo, only to be sacrificed by the Mayan natives.


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