Sentence examples for on a freighter from inspiring English sources

"You have to be slightly bonkers to go on a freighter," Andrew Neaums, an Anglican priest, one of my fellow-travellers, told me at dinner.

Nine of the 10 stories in her newly published and widely praised collection, "Friend of My Youth," are about small towns and their people; the exception is not much of one, since it involves a dozen passengers on a freighter.

I am living five lives at once, and in one of them, of course, I am also working on a freighter.

I was on a freighter heading through the Bahamas.

He worked as a steward on a freighter bound for Africa.

During the war, the writer was a purser on a freighter.

They emigrated to Canada from Europe on a freighter a year before I was born.

He stopped to buy some things she… During the war, the writer was a purser on a freighter.

All of this came in handy while looking for work when he first arrived, after stowing away on a freighter, in the United States in 1926.

Olly deMacedo, who came to this country from the Cape Verde islands in 1966 when he was 7, started his journey on a freighter.

"I'm working on a freighter," I wrote home.