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  • noun Plural form of sailor.

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Examples

  • But it was in what he called a sailors 'boarding-house, and one morning, after he had been drinking overnight "with a very pleasant gentleman," he found himself in the forecastle of a ship bound for Holland, and when the mate came and cursed him up and cursed him out he found himself in the foretop.

    Through the Eye of the Needle A Romance William Dean Howells 1878

  • In Vietnam, 11 bodies were recovered in the worst-hit province of Quang Binh, where authorities were also searching for five sailors from a sunken barge, disaster official Nguyen Ngoc Giai said.

    Asia Floods: Indonesia, China Among Hardest-Hit AP 2010

  • Native sailors from the ends of the seas knock about on the beach in Tahiti; and

    THE HEATHEN 2010

  • One of the sailors from the boat pointed at the mouth of the passage and shook his head.

    THE HOUSE OF MAPUHI 2010

  • Anyway, one of the Royals decided to a visit to the town and a contingent of Officers led by a black Inspector, were detailed to direct the traffic and hold back the crowds, which included some American sailors from the local naval base.

    Purple Pain « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009

  • Nine U.S. sailors from the battleship Dolphin, berthed off Tampico, come ashore carrying weapons and are detained (for about thirty minutes) by federal authorities.

    Mexico this month - April 2009

  • In Nigeria, pirates kidnapped two foreign sailors from a tanker off the coast of the country's restive and oil-rich southern delta.

    World Watch 2010

  • In Vietnam, 11 bodies were recovered in the worst-hit province of Quang Binh, where authorities were also searching for five sailors from a sunken barge, disaster official Nguyen Ngoc Giai said.

    Asia Floods: Indonesia, China Among Hardest-Hit AP 2010

  • Nine U.S. sailors from the battleship Dolphin, berthed off Tampico, come ashore carrying weapons and are detained (for about thirty minutes) by federal authorities.

    Mexico this month - April 2009

  • They tax the crap out of us, Spend like drunkin sailors, and couldn't stick to a budget if their lives depended on it.

    Aurora Extends Smoking Ban to Entire Police HQ Campus and Soon to Rest of City Properties; Should City Smokers Pay More for Health Insurance? 2009

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