reefer

Example Sentences

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“For the growing middle class, basic food like rice is no longer enough,” said Eric Legros, head of reefer operations at French shipping giant CMA CGM.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 29, 2018

Pelayo suspects the vessel is a “mothership,” or reefer, which collects fish from smaller fishing boats, allowing them to stay out at sea longer.

From National Geographic • Aug. 15, 2017

Beriberi was responsible for the hospitalisation and death of a number of Cambodian and Thai fishermen earlier this year who had been aboard a Saya de Malha reefer for nine months continuously.

From The Guardian • Dec. 14, 2016

Decades later, my life experiences taught me the true danger to America's moral fiber is usually not in things like Rock'n'Roll, D&D, reefer madness, or even gay marriage.

From New York Times • Apr. 17, 2016

She was wearing a navy-blue reefer and a tam that was very nearly the same shade of red as the blanket on the bed in van Gogh’s room at Arles.

From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger