How to use "sailor" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "sailor" in popular movie and book plots

  • Staking out a local motel, Fuad sees a drunken sailor drop his wife off at her room.  - Blood Feast
  • Suldrun is content to be alone until one day, a half-drowned sailor washes ashore.  - Lyonesse Trilogy
  • Jaffar sentences Sinbad's crew to the torture chamber while the mighty sailor is to be locked in a pit full of snakes.  - Sinbad of the Seven Seas
  • The order is upset however when Tenar's son Spark returns home suddenly from a life as a sailor and tells her he wishes to run the farm.  - Tehanu
  • The title character, James Wait, is a dying West Indian black sailor on board the merchant ship Narcissus sailing from Bombay to London.  - The Nigger of the 'Narcissus'
  • The German sailor pulls a gun on the boat occupants but is surprised and disarmed.  - Lifeboat (film)
  • Among them is an adolescent boy of about fourteen years in a sailor suit.  - Death in Venice
  • Unhappy with mr Norbert's impotence, Fanny engages in anonymous sex with a sailor in the Royal Navy.  - Fanny Hill
  • The plot centers on the handsome Belgian sailor Georges Querelle, who is also a thief and murderer.  - Querelle
  • Parker places a hidden microphone in the interview room where Will Thoday and his sailor brother Jim are waiting.  - The Nine Tailors
  • He has placed an advertisement in the local newspaper asking if anyone has lost such an animal, and a sailor soon arrives looking for it.  - The Murders in the Rue Morgue
  • She's startled by a sailor on his way back to San Diego from leave.  - The Hitch-Hiker (The Twilight Zone)
  • Po-Han is harassed by a large, heavy-drinking, bullying sailor named Stawski, leading to a boxing match on which the crewmen place bets.  - The Sand Pebbles (film)
  • However, Orlok awakens and the horrified sailor jumps into the sea.  - Nosferatu
  • After considering the meaning of this phrase, the sailor smashes the plate and the scene ends.  - Battleship Potemkin
  • While imprisoned in the Bagne of Toulon, Valjean, at great personal risk, rescues a sailor caught in the ship's rigging.  - Les Misérables

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