mariner

Example Sentences

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We meet the mariner as he stops a wedding guest on his way to the church, and “holds him with his glittering eye.”

From The Wall Street Journal

"Every mistake that could be made was made, and each of the parties was complacent," Tsui said, referring to testimony by shipyard directors, inspectors and mariners.

From Barron's

For the Navy, which operates only a small number of cargo ships and relies on commercial carriers and mariners for most of its needs, the shortfall could be crippling.

From The Wall Street Journal

It reminded her of the line from Mr. Coleridge’s strange poem about the ancient mariner and the albatross.

From Literature

Despite the storm and the treacherous waters, Kontos, a skilled mariner, managed to guide his two boats to shelter in Antikythera’s only harbor, a small cove on its northern coast called Potamos.

From Literature