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Example sentences for "liner"

Lexicographically close words:
linemen; linement; linen; linendraper; linens; liners; lines; linesman; linesmen; lineup
  1. It was less than three minutes later that the second officer of the liner shouted, "Way enough!

  2. There were great rejoicings on the big Australian liner during the rest of that sunshiny Sunday, and you may imagine that Finn came in for a good deal of flattering attention.

  3. On my way home from Australia, where I had been for a voyage for my health, the liner had called at Naples, and Mr Melvill Arnold had joined us.

  4. But it is not necessary to soar skyward to comprehend what Galicia's coast is like, for that can be done from the promenade deck of a liner and the tops of hills.

  5. Orange-groves abound and vineyards carpet the landscape, while the stately liner sends her bow-wave swishing at the bare feet of fishwives who are handling catches as they were handled in the days of Jesus.

  6. It was an English boat, an old liner pulled off the Australian trade, that could carry only twenty-five hundred men.

  7. This liner was in truth the "Old Anchises"; even the carpenters who made her over for the service had not thought her worth the trouble, and had done their worst by her.

  8. He remembered that the liner was not due to leave until two-thirty.

  9. As the big liner sent out its raucous note of departure and moved away from the dock the little mother was unable to see the bare head of her boy above the heads of the great crowd.

  10. The dull monotony of life aboard a liner has given me a thirst for twinkling ankles, the clash of cymbals and the glare of the lime-light.

  11. Then Merry took a hot liner from the next batter, and Rockland did not score.

  12. He selected a bat, and then, without any apparent effort, drove out a high liner for Cogern in deep center.

  13. Meanwhile the long shape of the great liner was getting bigger and bigger.

  14. Then he closed the window slide, and the next moment Zaidie saw the great liner sink down beneath them in a curious twisting sort of way.

  15. An average size ocean liner pays about $5,000 for the privilege of sailing through this great ditch.

  16. To-day every ocean liner is equipped with its own cold storage and ice-making plant, refrigerator cars transport vast cargoes of meats, fish, etc.

  17. In March, 1916, a great neutral passenger ship, the Dutch Liner Tubantia, was sunk in the North Sea.

  18. We came into the port through rain and rough weather and passed a big white liner loaded up feverishly from steam tenders with wealthy refugees going England-ward.

  19. It seems to me now that all the way across to America, in that magnificent German liner I joined at Hamburg, I was thinking in confused alternations of her and of Mary.

  20. But when a liner starts for the Congo, there is much excitement.

  21. Sally was disappointed, but it was such a beautiful morning, and New York was so wonderful after the dull voyage in the liner that she was not going to allow herself to be depressed without good reason.

  22. It was a wireless, handed in on board the White Star liner Olympic, and it ran as follows: Remember.

  23. One novel expedient was running a liner full of troops deliberately ashore, thus allowing them to approach close in under cover without being exposed in open boats.

  24. He said: While I was in Bremen I met Commander Schmitz of the German submarine U-28, which sank the British African liner Falaba off the English coast on March 28.

  25. To the question whether the loss of the liner could have been avoided, Mr. Kessler said slowly: "That is a very serious question, and I hesitate to give an opinion on matters which are purely technical.

  26. I mentioned the fact to the commander that it had been reported by some of the survivors of the liner that while the men and women were struggling for their lives in the icy water his crew were standing on the deck of the submarine laughing.

  27. The following official communication was issued tonight: The Cunard liner Lusitania was yesterday torpedoed by a German submarine and sank.

  28. Meanwhile the Turks on the Asiatic side tried to destroy the liner by howitzer fire, which was kept under only by the bombardment from covering ships in the strait.

  29. It would have been nothing short of a miracle if all the passengers and crew of a big liner had been able to take to their boats within the time allotted.

  30. If only he could catch a glimpse of some other liner hurrying along her route, then these people could be saved easily.

  31. The cry came as Tom knocked a neat liner out to center field.

  32. I don't know--maybe take a liner for Europe, or to some other part of the earth.

  33. As they reached the deck the great liner was almost abreast of them, and gradually came to a standstill with clouds of pent-up steam pouring from her safety-valves.

  34. The liner proceeded on her course at full speed, and the sailing vessel was soon lost to sight in the fog.

  35. As the liner steamed ahead, the boy saw the big broken bowsprit dangling in the bow of the other vessel, and he also saw great clouds of sails drop down upon the crew.

  36. Inglis's patent arrangement, with separate liner and steam jacket casing and separate end valve chambers.

  37. The liner has face joints, which are carefully scraped up to bed truly to the end valve chambers.

  38. The rudder and stern propeller were then destroyed, and the great liner forced to plane to the surface of the water.

  39. The boat showed no distinguishing lights, and failed to signal, as she flashed past the liner at the distance of half a mile.

  40. Our liner Albatros, carrying the mails, left New York yesterday morning about seven a.

  41. Now considerable experience of the fussy great men who controlled the air-liner companies, which linked up England with all parts of the world, had made me somewhat sceptical of these urgent demands for my presence.

  42. It appears that two nights ago the famous air-liner Atlantis left the Plymouth sea-drome about nine in the evening.

  43. Old Swainson answered on his Klaxon, and then the liner began to move slowly over the glittering water.

  44. We have given an account of the first attack upon the air-liner Albatros, under command of Captain Pring, whose conduct in such a trying situation did not deviate from the best traditions of our British aviators.

  45. Connie was to leave the sea-drome at eight-thirty in that fine flying-liner Atlantis.

  46. Half-way across the Atlantic the liner was to be met by a similar escort of the United States A.

  47. Presently the liner was allowed to proceed on her way, and the German steamed off in a north-easterly direction.

  48. By this time the Germans could be seen conveying things from the liner to their own vessel, and, somehow or other, the rumour spread among the Hawk's crew that they were bullion cases.

  49. More like a young liner than a yacht, isn't she?


  50. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "liner" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.