How to Use shore leave in a Sentence

shore leave

noun

• Nine-tenths came aboard after their shore leave, clean and sober.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 July 2021
• The result is that the Democrats govern with the frenzied desperation of a sailor on a 24-hour shore leave.
  — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 16 Aug. 2021
• 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
• Peter Krouse reports its first port of call is Cleveland, where the ship can take on fuel, replace stores and give the crew a little shore leave.
  — cleveland, 28 Oct. 2022
• But in the era of no shore leave, DiDomenico has become a de facto delivery driver.
  — Taylor Telford, Washington Post, 9 Apr. 2021
• Newman says passengers were allowed a five-hour shore leave Sunday night in Juneau but were confined to the ship on Monday.
  — Claire Stremple, Anchorage Daily News, 28 June 2022
• The deputies were acting as bounty hunters and attempting to return enlisted Navy sailors who had overstayed their shore leave to the ship for a $10 reward.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 July 2021
• Marchal — and hundreds of thousands of seafarers like her — have not been permitted shore leave since.
  — Hanna Ziady, CNN, 29 Sep. 2021
• 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
• 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
• Crew contracts last anywhere from four to nine months, so shore leave restrictions like this significantly impact the mental health of crew members—not to mention, can contribute to staffing shortages.
  — Michelle Endo, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 July 2021
• Given the cities’ historical trade networks, researchers believe that this high incidence of the normally rare mutation resulted from a few polydactyl merchant-ship cats taking shore leave as far back as the mid-18th century.
  — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 25 Aug. 2014
• The accumulation of stories like this, and the ongoing limitations on shore leave and unpredictable border restrictions, has made retention and recruitment a problem, Platten explained, especially during the holiday season.
  — Aurora Almendral, Quartz, 29 Oct. 2021

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024