sailor
noun
a person whose occupation is sailing or navigation; mariner.
sailors
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pluralof sailor.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Using satellite images taken an hour later, journalists at the newspaper Le Monde soon identified the officer’s location, as well as the location of many of his fellow sailors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026
US sailors stopped in Thailand on their way home, hitting bars, malls and beach areas in their first time on land before continuing on to the US.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
He was sent, instead, to a disciplinary Siberia—in his case a Baltic port in Lithuania—where he was tasked with extracting information from Western sailors and businessman.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026
Speaking of the other sailors on the boat, he said, “I would think that the overwhelming majority would be like, Jackson, you got a cool dad.”
From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2026
As Penelope already knew, Simon’s great-uncle Pudge was very old and had been a seafarer in his youth; now he lived in a home for old sailors in the city of Brighton, near the sea.
From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood
