Sentence examples for nautical lexicon from inspiring English sources

Awash in the nautical lexicon are a sea of oxymorons -- small gale, light anchor, jumbo shrimp -- that at first take seem like contradictions, but which upon further review are marvels of concise description.

Ghosh isn't one to wear his historical research lightly, and for all the nautical lexicon and pidgin English clipped from Victorian journals ("Cunchunees whirling and tickytaw boys beating their tobblers"), his account of life on the Ibis, a slave-turned-opium-turned-slave ship, is unatmospheric.

He has combed the colonial-era dictionaries and lexicons for nautical speech, barrack-room slang and all sorts of thieves' and whores' argot.

Nautical railings.

LEXICON, by Max Barry.

A nautical impromptu [graphic].

buys Lexicon's linguistic rationales.

A Nautical Stage Q.

We're loving nautical".

Dress code: Nautical.

The Neuroscience Lexicon.