How to Use seaman in a Sentence

seaman

noun
  • As a young seaman, other sailors had called him racial slurs.
    — Diana Marcum, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2021
  • Michael agrees to sign on as a seaman aboard the husband’s yacht.
    — Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Ames had been a merchant seaman and spent months at at time away from home.
    — Yvonne Wenger, baltimoresun.com, 9 Nov. 2020
  • He was reassigned as a seaman and put on the crew of the ship.
    — Washington Post, 5 Aug. 2021
  • The bag was made of sailcloth and sealed with a common seaman’s stitch.
    — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Aug. 2021
  • On the left is sergeant seaman first class Norman Thomas and me.
    — Glen Barber, The Denver Post, 17 June 2017
  • At the end of it, the heavy seaman was pinned to the corner by gravity and fear.
    — Joshunda Sanders, Longreads, 23 May 2018
  • Nope, just your fellow seamen and some fish to keep you company.
    — Georgia Frances King, Quartz at Work, 16 Aug. 2019
  • Black newcomers filled the ranks of both seamen and shipbuilders.
    — Scott Wilson, Washington Post, 24 June 2023
  • Thanks to the internet, more seamen are aware of the risks in west Africa and loth to go there.
    — The Economist, 29 June 2019
  • Not even the families of naval seaman based here knew of its existence.
    — Jeff Opdyke, latimes.com, 23 June 2019
  • The seamen were treated to a day of catch-and-release sturgeon fishing.
    — oregonlive.com, 8 June 2019
  • Caught in the middle are 23 seamen who have nothing to do with any of the three countries.
    — Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 28 July 2019
  • Mays was a seaman apprentice at the time and has since been promoted to seaman.
    — Julie Watson, ajc, 16 Dec. 2021
  • Insua has been charged with seaman’s manslaughter.
    — Escher Walcott, PEOPLE, 1 Apr. 2026
  • He was often called upon to assist a Russian tourist or seamen.
    — Frederick N. Rasmussen, Baltimore Sun, 26 Mar. 2023
  • Captain Edward Smith's bathtub, who, like most of its seamen, went down with the ship.
    — Charlie D'agata, CBS News, 21 Aug. 2019
  • They were transferred to the fire department’s 30-foot rescue boat, but the third seaman was nowhere to be found.
    — Peter Fimrite, SFChronicle.com, 15 Nov. 2020
  • Then, noticing changes in the wind and the rocking of the boat, an uneasiness crept over the veteran seaman.
    — Kelly McGreal, FOXNews.com, 5 Apr. 2026
  • At the gangway, about the only welcome comes from the pastor at the seaman’s church who offers the crew a ride somewhere.
    — Joseph Goldstein, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2017
  • Insua is charged with seaman's manslaughter.
    — Dennis Romero, NBC news, 1 Apr. 2026
  • But many of the seamen taken hostage by Somali pirates have at least been set free fast, once fat ransoms have been paid.
    — The Economist, 28 June 2018
  • My mother was 13 or 14 when she was married off to a much older man, a merchant seaman.
    — Bruce Tomaso, Dallas News, 19 Aug. 2019
  • The seamen’s unions said the crew has been treated well by the company and agencies that have responded to the incident.
    — Jean Marbella, Baltimore Sun, 12 May 2024
  • Hired to find a missing person in New Orleans, a merchant seaman becomes the prey of those who hunt men for sport.
    — Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2019
  • Experienced seamen were in high demand at the time, and I’d been left with a bunch of landlubbers, green hands, and shore dunces.
    — Mike O’Brien, The New Yorker, 7 Nov. 2023
  • There are no shortage of headlines about the alarming numbers of soldiers and seamen and Marines being overweight.
    — Noelle Wiehe, The Orlando Sentinel, 17 Aug. 2025
  • However, the clothing found scattered around the remains was not of the sort usually worn by seamen or officers.
    — ArsTechnica, 8 May 2026
  • These outposts were intended to be manned by British seamen armed with antiaircraft weaponry.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, 30 June 2026
  • On the morning of D-Day, the English seamen were issued with cream duffle coats, which by the end of the day were blood red.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 18 Oct. 2024

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