How to Use mariner in a Sentence
mariner
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When a storm hit the Gulf Coast, the mariner was lost at sea.
—Darla Guillen Gilthorpe, Houston Chronicle, 30 July 2019
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These are the kind of craft that remain a mariner’s dream.
—Bruce Dorminey, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2021
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So many whales foraged in the bay that the mariners didn’t need to venture to the open ocean.
—Douglas Main, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Jan. 2024
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She's said to have been engaged to a mariner who sailed out of The Port of Galveston.
—Darla Guillen Gilthorpe, Houston Chronicle, 30 July 2019
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Celebrity says women make up just 2% of the world's mariners.
—Hannah Sampson, chicagotribune.com, 3 Dec. 2019
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In the 1920s, mariners made a hard turn toward rat-proofing their boats.
—WIRED, 7 Oct. 2023
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While the father is a proud mariner, the son has no interest in the sea and would prefer to sell the boat.
—Patrick Frater, Variety, 9 Oct. 2023
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Forecasters warned mariners along the Texas coast to be on guard for gale-force winds.
—CBS News, 17 Jan. 2018
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And like the ancient mariner who shot the albatross, we are compelled to tell the tale.
—Krista Stevens, Longreads, 19 July 2023
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The Coast Guard determined the vessel wasn't safe and that the mariners should abandon ship.
—Jim Ryan, OregonLive.com, 8 June 2017
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The nightstand is a mariner’s chest with rope handles from an antiques store in Maine.
—Marni Elyse Katz, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Feb. 2023
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The mariner radioed that there were four adults and three children onboard.
—Jay R. Jordan, Houston Chronicle, 21 Apr. 2020
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The Jones Act’s existence was meant to ensure a ready supply of ships and mariners in case of war.
—Matt Simon, WIRED, 3 Feb. 2024
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The 951-foot long ship has a crew made up of both Navy sailors and Military Sealift Command mariners.
—Matt Tunseth, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Mar. 2020
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Ryan Buckhalter, 48, who’s been a mariner for 20 years.
—Talmon Joseph Smith Lindsey Wasson, New York Times, 6 Dec. 2022
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The forecasters said mariners could expect high seas and high winds.
—BostonGlobe.com, 8 Oct. 2019
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Each mariner was hoisted out of the water and brought back to shore without injury.
—BostonGlobe.com, 1 May 2021
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Urgent broadcasts have been sent out about the sailors and their boat, with request for all mariners in the area to keep lookout.
—Nathan Solis, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Apr. 2023
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Portland’s mariner madam Nancy Boggs, who is thought to have run a bawdy barge up and down the Willamette River in the late 1800s.
—oregonlive, 23 Mar. 2022
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The yawning seam and corroded bolt conceal their defects from the mariner until the storm calls all hands to the pumps.
—Frederick Douglass, The Atlantic, 16 Aug. 2017
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Like the ancient mariner, Joe captured an audience and held it in his thrall.
—Bob Goldsborough, chicagotribune.com, 29 Sep. 2019
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Normally, the Mercy is tied up at a Navy base in San Diego with a small full-time crew of civilian mariners.
—John Ismay, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2020
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For more than three decades, the events of Tiananmen … have hung round the leadership like the albatross around the ancient mariner’s neck.
—The Economist, 20 Aug. 2019
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In the end, the crowdedness of Aquaman almost takes all the fun out of a movie about a mariner hero, his gorgeous hair, and a bunch of giant crabs.
—Alex Abad-Santos, Vox, 11 Dec. 2018
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So what was a day like for those hardy mariners of the turbulent and pivotal Atlantic battle?
—James G. Stavridis, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2020
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The Great Lakes are full of heartbreaking stories of lost mariners, and their vessels, some of which have never been found.
—Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 22 June 2023
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After the Games, Johnson worked as a mail carrier and then as a merchant mariner.
—Tim Arango, BostonGlobe.com, 28 May 2022
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After the Games, Mr. Johnson worked as a mail carrier and then as a merchant mariner.
—New York Times, 28 May 2022
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Spetses Town House is a classic, robust mariner's house sits on the waterfront, on a quiet edge of the main town beyond Kounoupitsa Beach.
—Antonia Quirke, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 May 2024
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Following the Key Bridge collapse, those conversations have begun already, said former merchant mariner Sal Mercogliano.
—Christine Condon, Baltimore Sun, 29 Apr. 2024
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