Sentence examples for sailor about from inspiring English sources
The phrase "sailor about" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English
It may be an incomplete or misphrased expression, and without additional context, it is difficult to determine its intended use. Example: "The sailor about the ship was giving orders." (This example is awkward and unclear.)
He started to tell the sailor about his recollections, but realized it was boring and stopped.
By David Denby A blood-red New York sky at dusk, a sordid city of graffiti and trash piles, all photographed by a handheld camera that jiggles and stumbles like a drunken sailor about to hit the deck.
They had made several hundred yards when, on the deck of the submarine, they saw German sailors moving about and preparing to fire.
None is really adequate for the pirate custom of interviewing sailors about their captain's character.
Ms. Tedstone had checked into the hotel with the two sailors about 1 a.m. after a night out in Manhattan.
23)Heart of Darkness Aboard the Nellie anchored in the River Thames, Charles Marlow tells his fellow sailors about his passage down the African coast.
No doubt this message was a warning to sailors about the lives they tended to lead, but it was also a signal to the landbound.
Racial tension met wartime apprehension in 1943, when the city was overrun with 50,000 sailors about to embark for combat overseas.
There's also a bouncy musical of sailors about to ship out, starring a popular song-and-dance man named Burt Gurney Channing Tatumm), who's the subject of scurrilous gossip that Eddie works to suppress.
He also established friendly relations with the Indians and obtained information from a group of shipwrecked Spanish sailors about the location of gold and silver in the interior of Brazil.
He described his nerve-jangling gold medal race to the whole school, gave an inspirational coaching talk to its sailors about racing and self-improvement, and competed in a match.
