sailor
noun
a person whose occupation is sailing or navigation; mariner.
sailorlike
-
a word derived from
sailor.
Example Sentences
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Biff watched Blount walk to the door with his rolling, sailorlike gait.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
He was a wiry, sailorlike man, of middle age, with merry, black eyes which yet had a steely flash in them.
From The Noank's Log A Privateer of the Revolution by W. O. Stoddard
The Garlies men swarmed up them and with sailorlike agility descended into the big courtyard of the ancient Cassillis townhouse.
From Patsy by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
He seemed quite happy; and he was nice and sailorlike.
From Fanny's First Play by Bernard Shaw
“Aye, aye, sir!” he returned in his sailorlike way; for in Bolderhead if you ask your direction of a man on the street he’ll lay a course for you as though you were at sea.
From Swept Out to Sea Clint Webb Among the Whalers by W. Bertram Foster
