First-port-of-call Sentence Examples

first-port-of-call

  • Thorvald Nilsen with nine men, sailed for an oceanographical circumnavigation, with Buenos Aires as the first port of call.

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  • He is, however, probably not the first port of call for anyone running a small business.

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  • The first port of call is an elderly woman, quickly snuffed out in her bed.

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  • Stavanger is the first port of call for northward-bound passenger steamers from Hull and Newcastle, and has regular services from all the Norwegian coast towns, from Hamburg, &c. A railway runs south along the wild and desolate coast of Jaederen, one of the few low and unprotected shores in Norway, the scene of many wrecks.

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