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Example sentences for: sailors

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The sailors’ first landfall was on the little offshore island of Tanegashima, which has progressed from matchlocks and muskets to being Japan’s principal rocket-launching center.
Expansion proceeded towards the hills, and La Barceloneta, a neighborhood created in the mid-1700s between the port and the beach, became the district of modest fishermen and sailors.
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.
The sheltered waters of Mission Bay are an ideal nursery for learning the basics of boat handling, while for the more experienced and adventurous sailors the wide Pacific waits outside.
Clearly, that is not to say that most words appearing in quotations in the OED and in any other (original) source are being used for the first time: on the contrary, it is very likely—and this might well apply to terms of art of a specialized field and, particularly, the speech of sailors, who did not enjoy an entirely savory reputation—that the terms were in oral use for a long time before they were written down.