SAILOR in a Sentence

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For SAILOR, below is one of 164 sentences:
'Also bear with all of us, sir sailor; for we all join in Don Sebastian's suit, cried the company, with exceeding interest.

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 Meanings and Examples of SAILOR
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sailor
 n.  a serviceman in the navy
Classic Sentence: (153 in 11 pages)
1  She had made herself young, with parted hair, sailor blouse and large blue bow, white canvas shoes and short linen skirt.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
2  No, when I go to sea, I go as a simple sailor, right before the mast, plumb down into the forecastle, aloft there to the royal mast-head.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 1. Loomings.
3  The transition is a keen one, I assure you, from a schoolmaster to a sailor, and requires a strong decoction of Seneca and the Stoics to enable you to grin and bear it.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 1. Loomings.
4  Again, I always go to sea as a sailor, because they make a point of paying me for my trouble, whereas they never pay passengers a single penny that I ever heard of.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 1. Loomings.
5  Finally, I always go to sea as a sailor, because of the wholesome exercise and pure air of the fore-castle deck.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 1. Loomings.
6  He had been a sailor and a harpooneer in his youth, but for many years past had dedicated his life to the ministry.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 8. The Pulpit.
7  Aye, among some of us old sailor chaps, he goes by that name.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 19. The Prophet.
8  But at last I awoke; and turning, asked a sailor what bird was this.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 42. The Whiteness of The Whale.
9  So still and subdued and yet somehow preluding was all the scene, and such an incantation of reverie lurked in the air, that each silent sailor seemed resolved into his own invisible self.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 47. The Mat-Maker.
10  Every sailor swore he saw it once, but not a second time.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 51. The Spirit-Spout.
11  Any man who has gone sailor in a whale-ship will understand this; and all this and doubtless much more, the Lakeman fully comprehended when the mate uttered his command.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 54. The Town-Ho's Story.
12  There, luck befriended him; two ships were about to sail for France, and were providentially in want of precisely that number of men which the sailor headed.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 54. The Town-Ho's Story.
13  'Also bear with all of us, sir sailor; for we all join in Don Sebastian's suit, cried the company, with exceeding interest.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 54. The Town-Ho's Story.
14  '"'Though there are no Auto-da-Fe's in Lima now,' said one of the company to another; 'I fear our sailor friend runs risk of the archiepiscopacy.'
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 54. The Town-Ho's Story.
15  whales, with dromedary humps, and very savage; breakfasting on three or four sailor tarts, that is whaleboats full of mariners: their deformities floundering in seas of blood and blue paint.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 55. Of the Monstrous Pictures of Whales.
Example Sentence:
1  The sailor had been taught not to be laggard in carrying out orders.
2  When the land was seen, the sailor let out a whoop of joy.
3  The picture he threw on the screen of himself must have been something else again - seasoned sailor, hardy adventurer, and who knows what else?
4  The boy decided not to become a sailor.
5  It was the sailors'first night ashore ; they painted the town red.
6  Chiswick church is dedicated to St Nicholas, patron saint of sailors.
7  Half a dozen sailors jumped him.
8  Several sailors were straining at the rope.
9  Divers trying to raise the bodies of 118 sailors from the sunken Kursk nuclear submarine were near to finishing a man-sized hole in the hull on Tuesday.
10  The sailors decided to scuttle their vessel rather than surrender it to the enemy.
11  The sailors are asked to take their positions by their captain.