How to Use explorer in a Sentence

explorer

noun
  • The explorers could just hit print.
    Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 20 Mar. 2026
  • Explorers trying to cross the ice sheet lost their lives to the cold.
    Paul Bierman, Washington Post, 7 Jan. 2026
  • And yet this romantic idea of what an explorer is has stuck around.
    Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Aug. 2023
  • Explorers have long been drawn to this remote corner of the world.
    Gisela Williams, Travel + Leisure, 8 Jan. 2026
  • The space agency plans to land some of these explorers on the moon later this decade.
    Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Mar. 2024
  • One way to get kids jazzed about food is to approach it with the wonder of an explorer.
    Washington Post, 11 Aug. 2021
  • At its top was a tiny black ant, like an explorer who had just crested a mountain peak.
    New York Times, 18 Aug. 2021
  • At its top was a tiny black ant, like an explorer who had just crested a mountain peak.
    BostonGlobe.com, 19 Aug. 2021
  • And the rockets that are here were built by space explorers who came to Huntsville from all over the world.
    Paul Gattis | [email protected], al, 3 Aug. 2023
  • Like any good explorer, the yacht can also hold two tenders and a chopper.
    Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 24 Feb. 2026
  • The seasoned explorer who built a life around what matters and learned to hold it lightly.
    John Winsor, Forbes.com, 20 Jan. 2026
  • One, in fact, was a Finnish explorer who lived with a female pirate.
    Jeanne Muchnick, USA TODAY, 6 Sep. 2024
  • When your inner explorer starts to emerge, there’ll be plenty to tempt it into the open.
    Sunset Magazine, 24 Nov. 2020
  • Not only have explorers mapped new areas over the years, but new caves are still forming.
    Eve Chen, USA Today, 1 Mar. 2026
  • One of a cave explorer’s most essential items is, of course, a headlamp.
    Maureen O'Hare, CNN Money, 9 Aug. 2025
  • It’s been proudly held by explorers in the seas to the stars since 1918.
    Abigail Geiger, Rolling Stone, 26 June 2023
  • French explorer Jacques Cousteau called it one of the top 10 dive sites in the world.
    Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 25 Sep. 2023
  • Ochoa logged nearly 1,000 hours in space, a feat achieved by few space explorers.
    Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 May 2024
  • Other explorers then took the stage to help the voyager to exhume the Olympic rings.
    Lindsay Kimble, Peoplemag, 11 Aug. 2024
  • That is on the lower end of the range spectrum for explorers, but more than enough for transatlantic voyages.
    Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Forty years later, the sons of the great two explorers duplicated the feat, but by ship this time.
    Jim Clash, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2025
  • In more recent years, ocean explorers have conducted dives down to the crash site to learn more about the wreckage.
    Sarah Holzmann, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Feb. 2025
  • And the station astronauts had lots of questions for the deep-space explorers.
    Mike Wall, Space.com, 8 Apr. 2026
  • This gives the vessel the ability to journey to all corners of the globe just like a large explorer.
    Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 3 Aug. 2021
  • But to a diver, or any explorer, the end of the road is where the real adventure begins.
    Scott McMurren, Anchorage Daily News, 6 May 2023
  • Each explorer is given a headlamp.
    Tristan Rutherford, Robb Report, 26 Jan. 2026
  • The explorer Ernest Shackleton is a hero of yours.
    Belinda Luscombe, Time, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Crude explorers shut down 13% of the American drilling fleet last week.
    Bloomberg Wire, Dallas News, 20 Apr. 2020
  • Galvagnon is an Arctic explorer at heart.
    Dea Jusufi, Forbes.com, 28 Jan. 2026
  • In the comics, Namor is the mutant son of a human explorer and an Atlantean princess.
    Nili Blanck, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Nov. 2022

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