How to Use shore leave in a Sentence

shore leave

noun
  • Nine-tenths came aboard after their shore leave, clean and sober.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 July 2021
  • The crew’s banter, whether in the galley, on deck or on shore leave, is a bracing update of salty, seafaring wags of yore.
    — Washington Post, 13 June 2019
  • Marchal — and hundreds of thousands of seafarers like her — have not been permitted shore leave since.
    — Hanna Ziady, CNN, 29 Sep. 2021
  • But in the era of no shore leave, DiDomenico has become a de facto delivery driver.
    — Taylor Telford, Washington Post, 9 Apr. 2021
  • The result is that the Democrats govern with the frenzied desperation of a sailor on a 24-hour shore leave.
    — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 16 Aug. 2021
  • Peter Krouse reports its first port of call is Cleveland, where the ship can take on fuel, replace stores and give the crew a little shore leave.
    — cleveland, 28 Oct. 2022
  • Newman says passengers were allowed a five-hour shore leave Sunday night in Juneau but were confined to the ship on Monday.
    — Claire Stremple, Anchorage Daily News, 28 June 2022
  • The Vikings’ stay on the island was apparently brief, just long enough for a few stowaway rodents to take some shore leave that ended up being permanent.
    — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 2 Jan. 2019
  • Desperate to keep the peace is the hotel manager, Bernard Dunlap — and keeping the peace is hard when there’s a crew of sailors on shore leave playing with explosives in the lobby.
    — Matthew J. Palm, orlandosentinel.com, 18 Sep. 2019
  • Crew contracts last anywhere from four to nine months, so shore leave restrictions like this significantly impact the mental health of crew members—not to mention, can contribute to staffing shortages.
    — Michelle Endo, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 July 2021
  • There have also been numerous shore leave adventures and unashamed comedy outings where the protagonists' actions have little bearing on the universe beyond their starship hull.
    — Richard Edwards, Space.com, 22 Jan. 2026
  • To kick things off, the Enterprise is due for shore leave, during which Number One (Rebecca Romijn) plans to stay on the ship — more on that later.
    — Joe Otterson, Variety, 28 Aug. 2025
  • India is on a three-week lockdown, and Greece, the world’s biggest ship-owning country and home to the Port of Piraeus, one of Europe’s busiest gateways, has suspended all shore leave and crew changes.
    — Costas Paris, WSJ, 5 Apr. 2020
  • Bettany, enjoying shore leave from the Marvel Cinematic Universe, goes all in on Warhol’s mincing pattern of speech with the elbows-in posture of someone on the defense.
    — Two Kings, Vulture, 20 Dec. 2022
  • Given the cities’ historical trade networks, researchers believe that this high incidence of the normally rare mutation resulted from a few polydactyl merchant-ship cats taking shore leave as far back as the mid-18th century.
    — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 25 Aug. 2014
  • The accumulation of stories like this, and the ongoing limitations on shore leave and unpredictable border restrictions, has made retention and recruitment a problem, Platten explained, especially during the holiday season.
    — Aurora Almendral, Quartz, 29 Oct. 2021

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