seamanlike

How to use seamanlike in a sentence

• She was, however, conducted in a most seamanlike manner, not a word being heard on board her.

  How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves | W.H.G. Kingston

• Not a very seamanlike job was made of it, but there was no time for the finer touches.

  The Moving Picture Girls at Sea | Laura Lee Hope

• The problem before Howe demanded therefore the utmost of his seamanlike qualities and of his tactical capacity.

  Types of Naval Officers | A. T. Mahan

• "Not a very seamanlike way of doing business," remarked the captain, looking dubiously around.

  Left on Labrador | Charles Asbury Stephens

• He had a number of screws with which he fastened some of the articles to the bulkheads, and lashed others in a seamanlike fashion.

  In the Eastern Seas | W.H.G. Kingston