Example sentences for: whalers

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

  • The Maritime Museum in the old courthouse on Bastion Square contains some fine models and navigational paraphernalia of the merchant ships of yore — whalers, steamers, and old Hudson’s Bay paddle-wheelers.

  • My suspicions aroused, I found that a number of entries had neither a nautical origin nor, perceivably, any nautical connection: jingo , offered as probably a Basque word, acquires a nautical connection because Basques were among the earliest organised whalers in Europe, and as harpooners their expressions would have carried some weight with other seafarers.

  • This week's episode was as cuddly as an episode of Full House , and the previous one, in which it's discovered that the moon has become a vulgar tourist trap, seemed recycled from Simpsons outtakes right down to the "Whalers on the Moon" singing panorama.

  • They were also fishermen and whalers, as many are today.


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