Example sentences for: scrimshaw

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

  • Caniçal was once a famous whaling port, but since whaling was banned in these waters in 1981, all that remains of this formerly lucrative industry is a Museum of Whaling and a few scrimshaw and whalebone souvenirs in a hut by the beach (more of the same is on sale at the car park at the end of the road heading east).

  • Families come to browse the stores selling T-shirts, and scrimshaw and driftwood curios, and to enjoy the beaches and the fishing and whale-watch trips.

  • Visitors swamp the port in summer, particularly Bearskin Neck alongside the harbor, which is lined with small gabled and flower-decked huts selling tourist fare — scrimshaw, fudge, leather, pewter, and typical art.

  • As it is, the book is greatly bulked up: its wide hanging indentions, large type, ragged-right setting, open spaces make for an attractive package; the illustrations are pretty and, in some cases (various sails), useful, but many of them are gratuitous and purely decorative ( helm, scrimshaw , five pages of different rigs).


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