Example Sentences

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The purse-seiner was hauled back into the water and floated.

From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck

A sudden and completely unexpected storm tore a purse-seiner and three lampara boats loose from their moorings and tossed them broken and sad on Del Monte beach.

From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck