How to Use mariner in a Sentence

mariner

noun

• When a storm hit the Gulf Coast, the mariner was lost at sea.
  — Darla Guillen Gilthorpe, Houston Chronicle, 30 July 2019
• These are the kind of craft that remain a mariner’s dream.
  — Bruce Dorminey, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2021
• 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
• 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
• Celebrity says women make up just 2% of the world's mariners.
  — Hannah Sampson, chicagotribune.com, 3 Dec. 2019
• In the 1920s, mariners made a hard turn toward rat-proofing their boats.
  — WIRED, 7 Oct. 2023
• Any true mariner is always happy to cross the rhumb line and have a Dark 'n' Stormy.
  — Christopher Ross, CNN, 23 May 2017
• 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
• Forecasters warned mariners along the Texas coast to be on guard for gale-force winds.
  — CBS News, 17 Jan. 2018
• And like the ancient mariner who shot the albatross, we are compelled to tell the tale.
  — Krista Stevens, Longreads, 19 July 2023
• The Coast Guard determined the vessel wasn't safe and that the mariners should abandon ship.
  — Jim Ryan, OregonLive.com, 8 June 2017
• The nightstand is a mariner’s chest with rope handles from an antiques store in Maine.
  — Marni Elyse Katz, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Feb. 2023
• The mariner radioed that there were four adults and three children onboard.
  — Jay R. Jordan, Houston Chronicle, 21 Apr. 2020
• 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
• 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
• Ryan Buckhalter, 48, who’s been a mariner for 20 years.
  — Talmon Joseph Smith Lindsey Wasson, New York Times, 6 Dec. 2022
• The forecasters said mariners could expect high seas and high winds.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 8 Oct. 2019
• Mariners sophomore Alani Nguyen finished 3 for 3 at the plate with a solo home run in the fourth inning.
  — Kenny Connolly, Orange County Register, 23 Mar. 2017
• Each mariner was hoisted out of the water and brought back to shore without injury.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 1 May 2021
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Like the ancient mariner, Joe captured an audience and held it in his thrall.
  — Bob Goldsborough, chicagotribune.com, 29 Sep. 2019
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• No injuries were reported, and the Coast Guard strongly urged mariners to file a float plan before taking their boat out on the water.
  — Saman Shafiq, USA TODAY, 5 Aug. 2024
• Already mariners in that area have started to do these things, and the number of attacks appears to have diminished significantly already this year.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 28 May 2024

Last Updated: 19 Nov 2024