Sample Sentences fornautical (auto-selected)
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My nautical senses told me we were somewhere off the coast of northern Florida, (source)nautical = relating to ships or navigation
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Do you know how to read nautical flags?† (source)
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Vic and Fisheye sit down in the main cabin belowdecks, eating, going through Chinese magazines, looking at pictures of Asian chicks, and occasionally looking at nautical charts.† (source)
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Driving up to see Susan Marie Heine, Art muddled out his words in silence, revising as he went and planning his demeanor, which ought, he decided, to have a vaguely military architecture with certain nautical decorative touches—to report a man's death at sea to his widow was a task done gravely but with tragic stoicism for centuries on end, he figured.† (source)
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There could be little doubt, for instance, that this very ship's crew, though no unfavourable specimens of the nautical brotherhood, had been guilty, as we should phrase it, of depredations on the Spanish commerce, such as would have perilled all their necks in a modern court of justice.† (source)
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Her monstrosities in the way of cattle would have taken prizes at an agricultural fair, and the perilous pitching of her vessels would have produced seasickness in the most nautical observer, if the utter disregard to all known rules of shipbuilding and rigging had not convulsed him with laughter at the first glance.† (source)
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He sat hunched, bitterly smiling, as always, his muscles taut as old nautical ropes in a hurricane.† (source)
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You left the high school a quarter of a mile behind still hearing the big flag snapping and the halyard beating nautically on the pole and you powered your car into the wind and saw dust sweep across the road and you drove into a white sky feeling useless and dumb.† (source)
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The floor was yellow and white tile, and the booths were upholstered in nautical blue.† (source)
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This whole area's a nautical graveyard.† (source)
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He asked him if he could find a specific spot sixteen nautical miles to the northwest of the largest island in the Sotavento Archipelago, and Euclides told him yes.† (source)
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He was responsible for an area forty nautical miles across, and his sector overlapped the ones east and west so that, theoretically, three operators were constantly monitoring any segment of the barrier.† (source)
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And then there was the time where we were taken out in boats and dropped off seven nautical miles from the beach.† (source)
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Ship timbers, wind in the rigging, and then shouts of sailors calling obscure but inescapably nautical instructions from all directions, far and near: A short list: Hard a larboard!† (source)
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There were nautical charts and sextants, rare shells, and immaculate small models of every ship on which Commerce had served during his life on the shipping lanes.† (source)
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I looked into a small office, containing a flat-top desk with a telephone, a typewriter on its table, a bookcase with shelves of books and pamphlets, and a huge map of the world inscribed with ancient nautical signs and a heroic figure of Columbus to one side.† (source)
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