How to Use mariner in a Sentence

mariner

noun
  • Their count includes eight mariners killed at sea.
    — ABC News, 4 May 2026
  • Each mariner will be remembered with a bell rung.
    — Emma George-Griffin, Freep.com, 22 Oct. 2025
  • When a storm hit the Gulf Coast, the mariner was lost at sea.
    — Darla Guillen Gilthorpe, Houston Chronicle, 30 July 2019
  • Just know that there is an army of mariners on the ships, moving those goods around the world.
    — Steve Kastenbaum, NPR, 9 May 2026
  • Celebrity says women make up just 2% of the world's mariners.
    — Hannah Sampson, chicagotribune.com, 3 Dec. 2019
  • So many whales foraged in the bay that the mariners didn’t need to venture to the open ocean.
    — Douglas Main, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Jan. 2024
  • The forecasters said mariners could expect high seas and high winds.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 8 Oct. 2019
  • The missing mariner was last seen wearing blue and orange waders and gray boots.
    — Tony Roberts, Baltimore Sun, 24 July 2024
  • The mariner radioed that there were four adults and three children onboard.
    — Jay R. Jordan, Houston Chronicle, 21 Apr. 2020
  • Forecasters warned mariners along the Texas coast to be on guard for gale-force winds.
    — CBS News, 17 Jan. 2018
  • In their campaign so far, the Houthis have sunk four vessels and killed at least eight mariners.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Each mariner was hoisted out of the water and brought back to shore without injury.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 1 May 2021
  • And like the ancient mariner who shot the albatross, we are compelled to tell the tale.
    — Krista Stevens, Longreads, 19 July 2023
  • The nightstand is a mariner’s chest with rope handles from an antiques store in Maine.
    — Marni Elyse Katz, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Feb. 2023
  • Any true mariner is always happy to cross the rhumb line and have a Dark 'n' Stormy.
    — Christopher Ross, CNN, 23 May 2017
  • While the father is a proud mariner, the son has no interest in the sea and would prefer to sell the boat.
    — Patrick Frater, Variety, 9 Oct. 2023
  • In the 1920s, mariners made a hard turn toward rat-proofing their boats.
    — WIRED, 7 Oct. 2023
  • Like the ancient mariner, Joe captured an audience and held it in his thrall.
    — Bob Goldsborough, chicagotribune.com, 29 Sep. 2019
  • The reports of whale sightings will come from mariners and the public, lawmakers said.
    — Caelyn Pender, Mercury News, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Urgent broadcasts have been sent out about the sailors and their boat, with request for all mariners in the area to keep lookout.
    — Nathan Solis, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Apr. 2023
  • Lakeshore visitors and mariners will see large waves on the Great Lakes this week as high winds sweep the state.
    — Sarah Moore, Freep.com, 16 Dec. 2025
  • She's said to have been engaged to a mariner who sailed out of The Port of Galveston.
    — Darla Guillen Gilthorpe, Houston Chronicle, 30 July 2019
  • My friends had made the man sound an ancient mariner, an invalid widower, near dead from a lurid litany of injuries.
    — Literary Hub, 29 Apr. 2026
  • So what was a day like for those hardy mariners of the turbulent and pivotal Atlantic battle?
    — James G. Stavridis, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2020
  • The yawning seam and corroded bolt conceal their defects from the mariner until the storm calls all hands to the pumps.
    — Frederick Douglass, The Atlantic, 16 Aug. 2017
  • The immediate area near the crash site has been closed to mariners although the main traffic channel of the bay is open.
    — Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Feb. 2025
  • The Coast Guard has put out a signal to other mariners for the survivors in distress.
    — Chris Boccia, ABC News, 1 Jan. 2026
  • The entire shoreline is under high swim risk warnings, and advisories for boaters and mariners.
    — Sarah Moore, Freep.com, 5 Sep. 2025
  • For mariners at sea, spoofing can have serious consequences.
    — Anna Raymaker, The Conversation, 12 Mar. 2026
  • The Coast Guard determined the vessel wasn't safe and that the mariners should abandon ship.
    — Jim Ryan, OregonLive.com, 8 June 2017

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