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- noun Plural form of
sailor .
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Examples
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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
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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.
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Native sailors from the ends of the seas knock about on the beach in Tahiti; and
THE HEATHEN 2010
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One of the sailors from the boat pointed at the mouth of the passage and shook his head.
THE HOUSE OF MAPUHI 2010
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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They tax the crap out of us, Spend like drunkin sailors, and couldn't stick to a budget if their lives depended on it.
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