How to Use explorer in a Sentence

explorer

noun
  • French explorer Jacques Cousteau called it one of the top 10 dive sites in the world.
    Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 25 Sep. 2023
  • It’s been proudly held by explorers in the seas to the stars since 1918.
    Abigail Geiger, Rolling Stone, 26 June 2023
  • In 1681, La Salle sent two explorers to search for the remains of the ship.
    Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 12 Nov. 2024
  • And the rockets that are here were built by space explorers who came to Huntsville from all over the world.
    Paul Gattis | Pgattis@al.com, al, 3 Aug. 2023
  • 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
  • Other explorers then took the stage to help the voyager to exhume the Olympic rings.
    Lindsay Kimble, Peoplemag, 11 Aug. 2024
  • One way to get kids jazzed about food is to approach it with the wonder of an explorer.
    Washington Post, 11 Aug. 2021
  • In the comics, Namor is the mutant son of a human explorer and an Atlantean princess.
    Nili Blanck, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Nov. 2022
  • Ochoa logged nearly 1,000 hours in space, a feat achieved by few space explorers.
    Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 May 2024
  • By 1741, Russian naval explorers had arrived at the east coast of Siberia, crossed the sea and found a new land: Alaska.
    Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Jan. 2025
  • Deep Sea Vision is the latest in a long line of explorers who have set out to try to find answers.
    Rachel Treisman, NPR, 25 Nov. 2024
  • In recent years, the robotic explorers have each blinked in and out of contact with NASA.
    Michael Roston, New York Times, 1 Jan. 2025
  • The true origin of the country’s name comes from Erik the Red, a Norse explorer who sought to attract settlers to the country.
    Andrew Kaczynski, CNN, 6 July 2021
  • 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
  • One, in fact, was a Finnish explorer who lived with a female pirate.
    Jeanne Muchnick, USA TODAY, 6 Sep. 2024
  • And yet this romantic idea of what an explorer is has stuck around.
    Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Aug. 2023
  • This Cadillac logo was derived from the coat of arms of a French explorer of the same name who founded the city of Detroit.
    Leshon Lee For The Wall Street Journal, WSJ, 7 May 2022
  • At its top was a tiny black ant, like an explorer who had just crested a mountain peak.
    BostonGlobe.com, 19 Aug. 2021
  • 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
  • English explorers who scoped out the land in the 1580s thought the Native people called it Wingandacon.
    John Kelly, Washington Post, 16 Sep. 2023
  • The sailors and explorers of those times were plumbing the depths of a harsh and largely unknown country, using the best knowledge and equipment of the day.
    Stephen C. George, Discover Magazine, 27 Sep. 2023
  • In the 1500s, Spanish explorers landed on the island and conducted trade with the tribe.
    Tony Briscoe, Los Angeles Times, 4 Sep. 2024
  • And finally, meet the American explorer who in 2019 became the first person to dive to the deepest points of the Earth's five oceans.
    Maureen O'Hare, CNN, 4 June 2022
  • The exact whereabouts of the famous explorer’s ship was long unknown; it had been trapped and crushed by thick Antarctic sea ice in 1915.
    Kevin Simauchi, oregonlive, 14 Aug. 2022
  • Today, as in eras past, a lot of wealthy men fancy themselves explorers.
    Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Aug. 2023
  • Otherwise, the case is a prime example of assumption of risk on the part of the explorers, Daynard said.
    Michael Casey, ajc, 23 June 2023
  • Regardless of the bottom, the visible portion of the 22XP certainly looks the part of the explorer.
    Kevin Koenig, Robb Report, 1 July 2022
  • At the end, wintry explorers are rewarded with an outdoor fireplace and s’mores.
    Nina Ruggiero, Travel + Leisure, 3 Mar. 2025
  • View everything from landscapes and vintage mountaineering gear to displays on early female explorers and the challenges of building the railway.
    Cindy Hirschfeld, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2025

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