Examples of shore leave in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web But in the era of no shore leave, DiDomenico has become a de facto delivery driver. — Taylor Telford, Washington Post, 9 Apr. 2021 But in the era of no shore leave, DiDomenico has become a de facto delivery driver. — Author: Taylor Telford, Jacob Bogage, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Apr. 2021 Cargo carriers prohibited shore leave for their crews. — Author: Taylor Telford, Jacob Bogage, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Apr. 2021 Cargo carriers prohibited shore leave for their crews. — Taylor Telford, Washington Post, 9 Apr. 2021 The police invoked the State Riot Act, and the Navy revoked shore leave for all sailors within 100 miles of San Francisco. — Bill Van Niekerken, SFChronicle.com, 12 Aug. 2020 India is on a three-week lockdown, and Greece, the world’s biggest ship-owning country and home to the Port of Piraeus, one of Europe’s busiest gateways, has suspended all shore leave and crew changes. — Costas Paris, WSJ, 5 Apr. 2020 Desperate to keep the peace is the hotel manager, Bernard Dunlap — and keeping the peace is hard when there’s a crew of sailors on shore leave playing with explosives in the lobby. — Matthew J. Palm, orlandosentinel.com, 18 Sep. 2019 The crew’s banter, whether in the galley, on deck or on shore leave, is a bracing update of salty, seafaring wags of yore. — Washington Post, 13 June 2019

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