collier

Example Sentences

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My grandfather had been a collier in northern England, my father a career Marine sergeant.

From New York Times • Dec. 17, 2021

It looked to him as though the collier was heading straight for the smaller boat but he thought little of it, having faith the Bywell Castle would alter its path.

From BBC • Sep. 2, 2018

It's thought the pub's strange name derives from the fact that a collier - a ship carrying coal - from Whitby in North Yorkshire used to moor regularly beside the pub.

From BBC • Jan. 2, 2017

He was deeply impressed by the tragedy of the Empress of Ireland, which had collided with a Norwegian collier in 1914 and with water pouring into her hold had capsized.

From Time Magazine Archive

"The Earl of Mar, I have it on the best authority, worked his passage as a collier into Scotland."

From Lawrence Clavering by Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley)