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How to use nautical in a sentence

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I had it to myself for an hour like an ambivalent character in Conrad, nautical man alone with his dyspathy.
The Gazelle could carry a maximum of four people, and had a top speed of 168 knots with a range of 300 nautical miles.
The Quarter Deck restaurant with its view, nautical atmosphere, fine menu and really jacked staff is special.
Still on a nautical theme, the Tall Ship at Glasgow Harbour is well worth a look.
Triton has a top speed of 20 knots and a maximum range of 3000 nautical miles at a speed of 12 knots.
The new lifeboat will have a range of 250 nautical miles and will carry a crew of six.
The Royal Australian Navy has confirmed that a wreck located 10 nautical miles east of Cape Moreton is not the Centaur.
Like other nautical instruments its primary function was to measure the altitude of the sun or a star above the horizon.
Besides, the port lies just 10 nautical miles from the international shipping route.
This is the nautical equivalent of playing Russian roulette with three chambers loaded.
Its operationally loaded top speed is rated around 38 nautical miles per hour.
Among the framed family pictures on our bedroom mantelpiece are two of young men in nautical uniform.
Journalists who flew ten nautical miles up the river mouth saw between 500 and 1000 marooned people.
Japan's defense of the sea lanes out to a thousand nautical miles sounded modest and did not arouse undue opposition at home.
The second area is between Christmas Rock and Gxulu River Mouth extending three nautical miles seawards from the high-water mark.
The ship sent out the Mayday signal early yesterday morning when it was about 33 nautical miles away.
A nautical instrument used to measure the altitude of stars and planets in the sky in order to determine a ship's exact direction.
When the ten minutes are up, as signified by the ding of an egg timer, a piece of nautical equipment as pedigreed as an astrolabe or a sextant.
This device was oddly nautical, the arrow was a trident and the board, which the wind clapped, shaped a bit like a ship's wheel.
Empires from Rome to Carthage fought over this most significant of nautical prizes.
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It will be worth while by way of illustration to point to the assistance given by horology to astronomical and nautical science.
Only on the equator is a minute of longitude and a nautical mile of the same length.
In general practice the minute of latitude is taken as equal to the nautical mile.
Now you have already learned that a minute of latitude is always equal to a nautical mile.
The nautical mile of 2029 yards has the honor of being the first standard based upon the dimensions of the globe.
The drums used for reeling a multiple cable on, are capable of holding half a nautical mile in length.
The range in nautical miles of a green light apparently is proportional to the cube root of the candle-power.
Sears was excited now, and, as usual when excited, drifted into nautical phraseology.
In the evening we had our second nautical entertainment in honour of the day.
At this rate they would require one hundred and fifty-one days to travel a nautical mile.
Beyond the fact that these were of nautical appearance, there was no distinctive dress.
The solar time by which our nautical standard is fixed, is that of the meridian of Greenwich.
A nautical mile, or knot, you know, is between one and one-sixth and one and one-seventh land miles.
The nautical mile remains in useA by navigators worldwide because of its convenience when working with charts.
Beyond 200 nautical miles, they may or may not continue, depending only on whether they exist in reality.
The Gulfstream G550 has a large, open cabin and maximum range of more than 6,000 nautical miles and typically accommodates 12-14 passengers.
The ship had set sail from a neighbouring state and experienced trouble 10 nautical miles west of the entrance of Khor in Sharjah.
Built by US-firm Liquid Robotics, the PacX Wave Gliders are expected to cover 9,000 nautical miles or 16,668 kilometers by their journey's end.
The nautical mile is a unit of length corresponding approximately to one minute of arc of latitude along any meridian.
Ahoy has a nautical theme, and is centered around red, white, black and navy.
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