Our masters mate with foure men more went up with our boat to sound the river, and found two leagues above us but two fathomes water, and the channell very narrow; and above that place, seven or eight fathomes.
The 13 wee weyed anker againe, and being becalmed about a league from the shore we fell to fishing where the Cods did bite at least 20 fathomes aboue ground, and almost as fast as we could hale them into the ship.
And sayling thence Westwarde nine or ten leagues off the shore, we had twenty foure fathomes redde sande, and small whitish stones.
M63) While wee lay foure leagues South of Cape Briton wee sounded and had sixtie fathomes black ozie ground.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fathomes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
