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