"sailor" is correct and usable in written English
You can use "sailor" to refer to someone who works on a boat or someone in the Navy. Example sentence: The brave sailor navigated us safely through the stormy seas.
"The sailor was a young Tunisian guy who charged $10,000 for driving the boat.
My boyfriend and I have lived on our motor sailor for years, yet had to enlist the help of an able seaman for our one trip out of the marina - and that was to move home.
So, in little more than a fortnight, she banged out a play about a feisty Salford girl, Jo, who is left alone by her flighty mum one Christmas, goes to bed with a transient Nigerian sailor, gets pregnant and is lovingly tended by an effeminate art student.
There was plenty to admire about Snow's vision of English history: the Armada was indeed defeated by English seamanship – and a spot of bad weather – and it was a delight to see a true sailor paying tribute to all-too-forgotten traditions.
Johnny's sole ambition was to be a sailor like his dad, and when the latter disappeared to New York, he stowed away on a ship to try to join him, getting caught en route and locked up in the county jail in Galveston, Texas.
We want to restore the tradition of Sinbad the sailor," says an enthusiastic undersecretary for tourism, Maitha Bint Saif al-Mahrouqi.
"No, no, my grandmother used to cuss like a sailor.
I picked out a beautiful pair of sailor trousers, in my usual small size, and tried them on.
This mixture of The Ancient Mariner, Orson Welles and Ruiz's own distinctive voice makes for a film that takes one, like the haunted sailor, off the beaten track.
Somehow he clawed back the Dane's lead and in the final race got ahead and stayed ahead to become the most successful Olympic sailor of all time.
The most famous is nakhoda (captain) Amini, a sailor turned restaurateur in Tabl village, on Qeshm island.
