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Example sentences for "explorers"

Lexicographically close words:
explorations; exploratory; explore; explored; explorer; explores; exploring; explosion; explosions; explosive
  1. The fauna and flora, which are similar to those of the other North Central States of North America, impressed the early explorers with their richness and variety.

  2. The explorers were fascinated with all they saw.

  3. After lingering two days at Saco, our explorers proceeded on their voyage.

  4. The return of the explorers was hailed with joy by the colonists at Annapolis Basin.

  5. Mooring their barque between these two arms of the harbor, towards the westerly end, the explorers remained there about three weeks.

  6. What the early explorers testified as to the abundant supply of grapes on the Carolina coast, and the propitious conditions existing for the propagation of the vine, is equally true to-day.

  7. All the early explorers gave it special mention.

  8. Charles Keck executed a bronze group of statues of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, the two explorers of the Northwest, which may be seen at Charlottesville.

  9. Richard Evelyn Byrd will always be remembered as one of the greatest explorers in United States history.

  10. At daybreak the explorers landed upon Roanoke Island, which is twelve miles long by two and a half wide, and found the spot where Admiral White had left the colony in 1587.

  11. The historian tells us that these bold explorers penetrated the wilderness, one from the north and the other from the south, to within one hundred miles of each other.

  12. American explorers and travelers, at the outset of the nineteenth century, encountered countless droves of wild horses all over the plains.

  13. Those explorers left or lost horses all over the southwest.

  14. Later explorers have added little to the scanty stock of information, save interesting descriptions of rich valleys and rough mountain scenery and severe hardships in the winters.

  15. Very soon all the chiefs followed, with a rather exuberant cordiality towards the party, and with forced smiles the explorers "received the caresses and no small share of the grease and paint of their new friends.

  16. Very early explorers think that all land westward is one land, India: awareness of other lands as well as India comes as a slow process.

  17. The lost explorers cached their records--or concealed them conspicuously in mounds.

  18. Early explorers have Florida mixed up with Newfoundland.

  19. It's sheer, brutal attempt to assimilate a thing that may or may not have fallen from the sky, with phenomena admitted by the anthropologic system: or with the early French or Spanish explorers of Illinois.

  20. But before discovering this feature and making their choice the explorers thought it best to inform themselves, as well as they could, of the character of the cave itself.

  21. It was then that the explorers seemed to reach the utmost limit of their misfortunes.

  22. The explorers looked at each other helplessly.

  23. They had been through so many marvels in so short a time that the explorers looked at each other doubtfully.

  24. But the explorers were too busy surmounting the obstacles with which the tunnel was strewn to heed details that otherwise might have arrested their attention.

  25. The huts so marked the explorers took to be the dwellings either of village dignitaries, or buildings devoted to public uses.

  26. But now, neither living nor dead explorers could be found.

  27. It was certainly not sunlight, or moonlight either, as the explorers quickly realized.

  28. This was quickly rebuked; and when Raoul, his followers and the explorers poured into the garden they were confronted by a group of men and women who gave no sign of uneasiness at their arrival.

  29. Somewhat dashed by this singular behavior, which was the more difficult to meet just because it lacked outward menace, the explorers conferred hastily together, hoping to hit on a safe line of action.

  30. And yet, there was the evidence of eyewitnesses to the killing of Herran; there was the spot where he had fallen--and as the body was not there now, it was practically certain that the explorers had carried it away with them.

  31. The friendly bearing of Anitoo and the other cavemen did not fail to impress the explorers favorably, dispelling whatever suspicions they might have had in the beginning, and giving them a taste of real enjoyment in their adventure.

  32. Nor is the position thus assigned to the Belus temple in harmony with the statement of Herodotus, which alone causes explorers to seek for the temple on the west side of the river.

  33. With the death of De Soto the work of the explorers was practically at an end.

  34. Embarking again on the 17th of March, the explorers continued their journey down the stream, coming after several days to a place where the river widened into a lake-like expanse.

  35. Thus passed away one of the three greatest Spanish explorers of the New World, a man as great in his way and as indomitable in his efforts as his rivals, Cortez and Pizarro, though not so fortunate in his results.

  36. A few days more took the explorers past the site of the future city of New Orleans and to the head of the delta of the Mississippi, where it separates into a number of branches.

  37. But the greatest of all these explorers and the first to traverse the river for the greater part of its course, was the Chevalier Robert de la Salle, and to his name is given the glory of revealing this grand stream to mankind.

  38. After leaving Germanna the explorers soon entered a region quite unknown to them.

  39. Its success contains at once a warning to those doubters who are always crying out that we have reached the limitations of knowledge, and an encouragement and stimulus to would-be explorers of new intellectual realms.

  40. The explorers might just as well have placed their small stone pile half a mile down the mountain side because it is dangerous anywhere near the summit.

  41. Eventually I arrived at a sort of natural platform where some previous explorers had placed a few rocks denoting the limit of safety.

  42. The explorers met a school of argonauts going up to the surface for a sail, and the child watched these strange creatures with much curiosity.

  43. The strength of our people now dwindled away, and centuries elapsed before explorers once more sought the northern seas.

  44. I am reading of the continual sufferings which the earlier Arctic explorers had to contend with for every degree, even for every minute, of their northward course.

  45. Earlier Arctic explorers have considered it a necessity to keep near some coast.

  46. It was hardly to be expected that these should be correct, as the weather seems to have been foggy the whole time the explorers were here.

  47. The second native race was that which the Dutch called Hottentot, and whom the Portuguese explorers found occupying the maritime region in the south-west corner of the continent, to the east and to the north of the Cape of Good Hope.

  48. As at Borja Bay, several little billets of wood, attached conspicuously to trees bordering the shore, recorded the visits of previous explorers to these outlandish regions.

  49. Two days had passed away; the young explorers made good progress.

  50. The explorers crossed the bed of the river some way to the north, at a distance from the blacks' camp, and, as the ground was level, were able to make good progress.

  51. The young explorers made a hearty meal--Bruce coming in for his share--to prepare them for the work to be done, whatever that might be.

  52. The moon got up, and, relieved from the heat of the sun, the explorers were better able to endure the want of water.

  53. Footnote 3: This is the Indian legend of El Dorado, which is really El Hombre Dorado, or the gilded man, and it was this story which led so many of the early explorers to search for "El Dorado.

  54. The cargo saved New France from bankruptcy; but the explorers had defied both Church and Governor, and all the greedy monopolists of Quebec fell on Radisson and Groseillers with jealous fury.

  55. Marquette's health began to suffer, and the two explorers spread an awning of sailcloth above the canoe as they glided with the current.

  56. Disgusted, the two explorers personally appealed to the Court of France; but there the monopolists were all-powerful, and justice was denied.

  57. So began the captivity, the love of the wilds, the wide wanderings of one of the most intrepid explorers in New France,--Pierre Esprit Radisson.

  58. Here they were so close ashore the Emerillon caught her keel in the weeds, and the explorers left her aground under guard and went forward in rowboats.

  59. Either Groseillers told it or his wife dropped some hint of it to her father confessor; but the two explorers were amazed to receive official orders to conduct the Jesuits to the North Sea by way of the Saguenay.

  60. Spring found the explorers following the Crees over the height of land from Lake Superior to Hudson Bay.

  61. God Save the Queen" sounded across the water from the land, and the sun came out and shone brightly as the stout whaler "Windward" steamed away with her party of Polar explorers in the best of spirits.

  62. A party of friends and several leading Arctic explorers assembled at Cannon-street Station this morning to see the English Polar Expedition off.

  63. Without delay, taking his rusty three-cornered chapeau from its peg, and donning his faded uniform, the conqueror of Illinois accompanied the explorers to Locust Grove, ablaze that night with welcome.

  64. We are not traders," said the Americans, "but explorers on our way to the Pacific.

  65. This, sent by way of China, reached the United States in 1807, to find the great explorers safe at home.

  66. Louisville received the explorers with bonfires and cannonry.

  67. The explorers were making pack-saddles of rawhide.

  68. As if in proof of this statement, George Rogers Clark and other first explorers at the Falls found Sand Island at low water a mass of hacked and mutilated human bones, whether of Indians or whites, no man could tell.

  69. They had named rivers and measured mountains, and after wandering more than Homer's heroes, the explorers were ready now to carry a new geography to the States.

  70. A dog left behind came to the camp of the explorers and became the pet of Captain Lewis.

  71. We must anticipate these United States explorers and traders.

  72. Leaving their horses with the Nez Perces, on October 4 the explorers were glad to get into their boats with their baggage and float down the clear Kooskooske, into the yellow-green Snake, and on into the blue Columbia.

  73. They were first met by early French explorers in the neighborhood of Sault Ste.

  74. The next stream above, on the south side, the explorers named Slaughter River for a herd of buffalo slaughtered by Indians below its cliffs.


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