mariners

Example Sentences

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These mariners all described the same, slow unraveling as they wait for some scrap of information on a question that hangs over the global economy: When will the Strait of Hormuz be unlocked?

From The Wall Street Journal • May 9, 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

The mariners trapped in the region “are doing an outstanding job under very difficult circumstances,” said Silke Lehmköster, managing director of Hapag-Lloyd’s fleet.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 13, 2026

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

From Barron's • Jan. 21, 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