mariners

Example Sentences

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Seamus Murphy, executive director of SF Bay Ferry, said the system includes monitoring and educating mariners.

From Los Angeles Times • May 21, 2026

Rhys was born in Cardiff but his mum's family are from Fishguard, while he said he also came from "a long line of mariners".

From BBC • May 1, 2026

A full-size replica of a Spanish galleon stares out into Manila Bay, the centrepiece of a museum that will transport visitors back to the 17th century, when conscripted Philippine mariners hastened the era of globalisation.

From Barron's • Apr. 28, 2026

And shipping lines and mariners have largely decided not to risk death or financial loss by running the gantlet.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 15, 2026

Geography had been remade at the beginning of the sixteenth century by mariners; the philosophy of nature was remade in the seventeenth by the ‘mathematicians and engineers’.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton