mariner

Example Sentences

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We meet the mariner as he stops a wedding guest on his way to the church, and “holds him with his glittering eye.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 16, 2026

Sawai plays Toda Mariko, a noblewoman who is a translator between Toranaga and an English mariner in "Shōgun."

From Salon • Jan. 6, 2025

Sal Mercogliano, a maritime historian and former merchant mariner, said that the silence the sailors must have heard in those moments is "the worst sound you ever hear" on a ship.

From BBC • Dec. 5, 2024

After serving as a mariner in World War II with the Merchant Marine, he sold soda.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 2, 2024

It had a symbolism that wasn’t in the other poems, and it also involved the poet’s ideas about the moral responsibility of the mariner.

From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers