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How to use mariner in a sentence

10 example sentences · noun

Mariner means synonym of sailor, particularly one on a maritime vessel. Example: “Mariners on sailing ships would sound the depth of the water with a weighted rope.”

Examples of mariner by meaning

nounSynonym of sailor, particularly one on a maritime vessel.

  • For mariners leaving the port after lonely nights on the high seas, the delights of the B52 Night Club and Stallion Pub lie a stumble away.2013 June 8, “The new masters and commanders”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 52

More sentences with mariner

  • Mariners on sailing ships would sound the depth of the water with a weighted rope.From the entry sound
  • Subsequently some Scottish troops settled, took up trade as weavers, tailors, or mariners, and married Dutch women.2007, Michael Lynch, The Oxford Companion to Scottish History, USA: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 228. From the entry trade
  • For much of the Middle Ages, ships had only three ranks of seamen: master, lodesman or navigator, and mariner.2011, Anne Crawford, Yorkist Lord: John Howard, Duke of Norfolk, c. 1425 -1485. From the entry lodesman
  • Mariners sometimes call the moving path of light leading to the moon the moonwake, because it looks like the white wash of a ship's wake.2006, The Atlantic: Word Fugitives. From the entry moonwake
  • Trans-Atlantic mariners wanted the wind dead on the stern, so they could run with it, sticking to the same latitude—a method called easting and westing.1997, Mark Kurlansky, “Chapter 4: 1620: The Rock and the Cod”, in Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World, Walker, →ISBN. From the entry sun
  • That is why, wherever there is a threat of ice forming, mariners haul out their boats, if they possibly can, or escape the threat.1988, Tristan Jones, The Improbable Voyage of the Yacht Outward Leg Into, Through, and Out of the Heart of Europe, page 64. From the entry haul out
  • Such has always been the importance of preserving the life and cargo carried by ships that pilots (or 'lodesmen') have been employed for centuries as freelance mariners.2014, Neil Jones, Paul Ridgway, Light Through a Lens. From the entry lodesman
  • The Sirens, gleeful scourge of mariners, beguiling bane and cruelhearted joy, whom no man could abandon once he'd heard them, were left, they say, through sly Ulysses' ploy.2014, Martial, Selected Epigrams, →ISBN, page 28. From the entry cruelhearted
  • S. mariners is Captain Ahab, the vindictive old salt who sailed the southern oceans screaming for more canvas, cursing tired crews, laughing wildly into the gale.1931 November 23, “Heroes: Almost Ahab”, in Time. From the entry old salt

Meaning of mariner

  1. noun Synonym of sailor, particularly one on a maritime vessel.

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Questions about mariner in a sentence

How do you use mariner in a sentence?
Mariner is used as a noun. For example: “Mariners on sailing ships would sound the depth of the water with a weighted rope.”
What is a short sentence with mariner?
“Mariners on sailing ships would sound the depth of the water with a weighted rope.”
What does mariner mean?
Mariner means synonym of sailor, particularly one on a maritime vessel.

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