mariner

Example Sentences

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For the Navy, which operates only a small number of cargo ships and relies on commercial carriers and mariners for most of its needs, the shortfall could be crippling.

From The Wall Street Journal

Training materials such as the magnetic compass housing, the fire locker and the emergency equipment locker - with all their contents - have been donated to City of Glasgow College to help prepare future generations of mariners.

From BBC

Neptune, the Roman god of the sea, stands just to the right of center and, to the right of him, a large eye hovers, a symbol to ward off evil and protect the mariners.

From The Wall Street Journal

Lynch said Hanwha could also help address another obstacle to expanding America’s commercial shipping fleet: a shortage of merchant mariners.

From The Wall Street Journal

Once hunted extensively for turtle soup, its eggs as a delicacy and decorative shells, the ancient mariner saw its numbers plummet and has been listed as endangered since the 1980s.

From BBC