sailor
Example Sentences
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First, U.S. sailors would use passive measures and contact the tanker by radio on an international channel.
Talia Levine, a senior and varsity sailor studying international relations, was sheltering in place in the science library across from the engineering building.
The opening sequence, titled “Men and Maggots,” describes the life of sailors aboard the Potemkin.
Part of that action is Patten’s realization that the sailor’s standard storm tactics—including reefing, heaving-to and lying a-hull—will not work in such an intense blow.
On X, users began posting elaborate folklore claiming that Somali sailors discovered Minnesota thousands of years ago, naming it “Minnadishu,” the twin of Mogadishu.
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