landlubbing
- a word derived from landlubber.
Example Sentences
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Perhaps more than anything else, Cousteau symbolized a boundless spirit of adventure, leading a landlubbing public into enchanted underwater worlds.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 21, 2021
A car restoration buff during his landlubbing hours, Blomquist said the reclamation process is similar on land or sea.
From Washington Times ● May 28, 2016
We have long embraced the buccaneer as a naughty, unconventional, seafaring hidden part of our politer, conventional, landlubbing selves.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2014
Plasmodial slime molds — landlubbing crawling bags of cytoplasm of which I am enormously fond — are also contenders for that title.
From Scientific American ● Apr. 15, 2013
Mastery of the waters of the Mediterranean was very largely the problem of a landlubbing general.
From Time Magazine Archive
