Sentence examples for a whaler from inspiring English sources

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The phrase "a whaler" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a person who hunts whales, typically for their oil or meat, or to describe someone involved in the whaling industry.
Example: "In the 19th century, a whaler would often spend months at sea in search of their quarry."
Alternatives: "a whale hunter" or "a whaling crew member".

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He is a whaler and volunteers doing rescues.

A few days later he is on a whaler off Nonesuch.

Prince Boston, a Nantucket slave, was sent to sea aboard a whaler in the 1770's.

It's the proverb of a whaler: go big or go home.

They too were eventually rescued, by a whaler; but the Polaris sank.

John Ross and his men were rescued by a whaler in the summer of 1833 and returned to England.

Sterling Hayden played a whaler looking to avenge his father's death; the final showdown has him armed with a harpoon.

"I'm like a whaler who just came in, and I'm taking in the whale oil," he said.

"Maybe we're going to have to go farther out into the ocean, take chances," a whaler named Hanko told me.

A whaler from the Faroe Islands questioned why the Makah felt compelled to hunt the whale in a canoe.

Meanwhile the whale's mother was being harpooned by a whaler, which was almost instantly sunk by a tsunami.

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