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How to use sailor's in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word sailor's? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
The corpsman donned sterile gloves and then tapped the sailor's lower abdomen verifying the full bladder.
The carrick bend, alas, is also known as the sailor's knot, which is not fair.
Wearing a 1940s-style polka-dot shift dress and sailor's hat, Ms McAndrew planted a kiss on the war veteran.
This boy, clad in a disheveled sailor's tunic and winter coat fit for a bear, stood no more than shoulder-high to me.
Just then a lean, swarthy guy in a white sailor's cap and navy pea coat walked in.
He uttered a crude four-letter curse that would rival any sailor's colorful language, then tried to roll over again.
A seaman in the US Navy in World War II ran barefoot across the red-hot deck of a burning ship to save a fellow sailor's life.
One wonders whether she is a Madonna or a sailor's wife restraining her tears as she watches her husband's ship depart.
Competitors danced the Highland fling, the sword dance, the Highland reel, the sailor's hornpipe, the Irish Jig and other dances, preferably to the music of the bagpipe.
Finally, Millepied, while brilliant in many places, simply misses the point of the third sailor's rhumba reducing it to mechanical sinuosity, and not at all sexy.
Use the slipped buntline where you need to hitch to a very large object where a slipped Sailor's Hitch for a quick-release hitch would prove unwieldy.
If the wind shifts in the sailor's favor, called a lift, so much the better, then this tack is even more favorable.
But if it shifts against the sailor's, called a header, then the opposite tack may become the more favorable course.
There's a sailor's tavern at the end of the street where I could find companionship if I chose but only music matters to me now.
Biscuits remained an important part of the Royal Navy sailor's diet until the introduction of canned foods.
Cherry Owen heads to the Sailor's Arms, where Sinbad still longs for Gossamer Beynon.
There is no data between soundings or between sounding lines to guarantee that there is not a hazard such as a wreck or a coral head waiting there to ruin a sailor's day.
It is most often associated with the Sailor's Hornpipe, but has formed the basis of many individual and group country dances into the modern period.
Examples from Classical Literature
But what had roused the sailor's dislike was that the lazaret contained no provisions.
The three sailors took the three Chums over to the chop-house, where they were given a hearty welcome by the sailor's uncle.
From without came the low lapping of the tide, and from over the water a sailor's chanty from the barque.
The stranger was stocky and strong, his muscles toughened by a sailor's activities.
He has been invaluable with his sailor's resources and handiness.
I left the Plato at the quarantine ground, going to the sailor's Retreat.
She had been under my care three years before for sailor's scurvy.
He sprang to his feet, drew and opened a sailor's clasp-knife, and balancing it open on the palm of his hand, threatened to pin the doctor to the wall.
Someone was singing, a dull, old, droning sailor's song, with a droop and a quaver at the end of every verse, and seemingly no end to it at all but the patience of the singer.
The sailor's face flushed up as if he were struggling with suffocation.
The anchor and the land are indissolubly connected in a sailor's thoughts.
The craft is steered by a foot tiller, leaving hands free to adjust the mainsheet to increase or decrease The Land Sailor's speed or pull the handbrake.
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