sailor

[ˈseɪlər]

Definition:
1. Any member of a ship's crew.
2. A serviceman in the navy.
3. A stiff straw hat with a flat crown.

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Use 'sailor' in a sentence:

• 1. The sailor told of his adventures on sea.
• 2. He could reply like a sailor.
• 3. A boat full of sleepy sailors arrived at the dock.
• 4. This fine tirade sounded, however, to the ungodly sailor-boy like a mere Pippi-pi.
• 5. The sailor often dreamed about home.
• 6. Divers this morning found the body of another American sailor drowned during yesterday's ferry disaster.
• 7. The sailors lowered a lifeboat.
• 8. She was already a keen and experienced sailor, having crewed in both Merlin and Grayling.
• 9. Several sailors were on watch.
• 10. Life on the sea, as any fisherman or sailor could tell you, is hard and dangerous.
• 11. The lifeboat was sent out to rescue the sailors from the sinking ship.
• 12. Sailors hung about while they waited to ship out.
• 13. My father was a sailor and I’m going to be one, too.
• 14. At last the sailors saw land ahead.
• 15. The book is based on the true story of a Scottish sailor/ seaman.
• 16. An officer and another sailor on it saw the rockets.
• 17. The sailors have taken the beach.
• 18. He liked to dress up as a sailor.
• 19. His father bred him to be a sailor.
• 20. Steamers tooted at us as sailors on deck waved in amusement.
• 21. There are two or three tricks to being a good sailor.
• 22. She wears a sailor hat.
• 23. In this context, generosity has come to mean that you hurl money around like a drunken sailor.
• 24. They are both experienced sailors/ seamen.
• 25. Sailor was the vocation his little heart dreamed of.
• 26. The sailor was given a burial at sea.
• 27. To warm himself, the sailor sat in front of the fire rubbing one bare foot against the other.
• 28. Her husband is a sailor.
• 29. The sailor went through all the motions smartly.
• 30. The sailors won at tug-of-war.
• 31. All the sailors disembarked from the vessel and went to town.
• 32. In the after years the sailor did not get home often.
• 33. A sailor carrying a sawn-off shotgun was arrested in Los Angeles.
• 34. Chiswick church is dedicated to St Nicholas, patron saint of sailors.
• 35. The sailor was so happy to have such a son.
• 36. The sailors hoisted the flags in the morning.
• 37. Being a sailor, broudy gets around a great deal.
• 38. To warm himself, the sailor sat in front of the fire rubbing one bare foot.
• 39. The sailor's wife had a foreboding that he would not return.
• 40. The body of the drowned sailor was washed up.
• 41. The boy had visions of being a sailor like his father.
• 42. James started to work on ships as a sailor when he was eighteen.
• 43. A sailor and his son lived nearby mountains.
• 44. More than four thousand soldiers, sailors and airmen paraded down the Champs Elysee.
• 45. The sailors abandoned themselves to drinking.
• 46. He usually preferred to train up a crew of enthusiastic young sailors from scratch.
• 47. This sailor always keeps a journal.
• 48. It was a long and stormy voyage, and they made me work my passage without pay, as a common sailor.
• 49. I was the son of sailors and reared on stories of the sea.
• 50. Three sailors are missing, believed drowned.
• 51. Rescue planes are trying to locate the missing sailors.
• 52. 'Come on boys', he shouted to the sailors.
• 53. Sailors at a naval base had mutinied against their officers.
• 54. He could not resist the attraction of the sea and became a sailor.
• 55. The sailor coiled the rope around the anchor.