NAUTICAL in a Sentence

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In front is a leather rack, in which to keep your speaking trumpet, pipe, telescope, and other nautical conveniences.

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 Meanings and Examples of NAUTICAL
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
nautical
 a.  relating to ships, sailors, or navigation
Classic Sentence:
1  In front is a leather rack, in which to keep your speaking trumpet, pipe, telescope, and other nautical conveniences.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 35. The Mast-Head.
2  This was the fourth time in my nautical life that I had done the same thing.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 49. The Hyena.
3  It belongs to the pure nautical mathematics.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 77. The Great Heidelburgh Tun.
4  Dantes listened with admiring attention to all he said; some of his remarks corresponded with what he already knew, or applied to the sort of knowledge his nautical life had enabled him to acquire.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17. The Abbe's Chamber.
5  Thus the Genoese, subtle as he was, was duped by Edmond, in whose favor his mild demeanor, his nautical skill, and his admirable dissimulation, pleaded.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 22. The Smugglers.
6  A white mast, fitted up with spars and other nautical tackle, could be seen rising against the dark clouds whenever the flames played brightly enough to reach it.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 6 The Figure against the Sky
7  The official detective was attired in a pea-jacket and cravat, which gave him a decidedly nautical appearance, and he carried a black canvas bag in his hand.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE NOBLE BACHELOR
8  On the whole river there was nothing that looked half so nautical.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
Context  Highlight   In I
Example Sentence:
1  I dressed myself in nautical rig, and went on deck to see all that I could.
2  It appears to me that this maxim is applicable to the medical as well as to the nautical profession.