mariners

Example Sentences

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Coast Guard’s San Francisco station, where mariners can report whale sightings to alert vessel operators in an effort to try to prevent more collisions.

From Los Angeles Times • May 21, 2026

These mariners all described the same, slow unraveling as they wait for some scrap of information on a question that hangs over the global economy: When will the Strait of Hormuz be unlocked?

From The Wall Street Journal • May 9, 2026

Caine said there are currently "22,500 mariners embarked on more than 1,550 commercial vessels trapped in the Arabian Gulf, unable to transit."

From Barron's • May 5, 2026

Rhys was born in Cardiff but his mum's family are from Fishguard, while he said he also came from "a long line of mariners".

From BBC • May 1, 2026

Geography had been remade at the beginning of the sixteenth century by mariners; the philosophy of nature was remade in the seventeenth by the ‘mathematicians and engineers’.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton