How to Use submariner in a Sentence

submariner

noun
  • The door would swing open with ease, and all three submariners could swim to safety.
    — Rachel Lance, Wired, 7 Apr. 2020
  • In the years that followed, that worry stuck with the submariner.
    — Catherine Porter, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2023
  • That’s just part of the sacrifice submariners make to serve, Saenz says.
    — Brenna Bailey, azcentral, 27 June 2018
  • No matter how serious an event is, there is nothing a submariner can do about it.
    — Zachary Halaschak, Washington Examiner, 30 Mar. 2020
  • Though the hull of a submersible can protect us from the more extreme effects, submariners remain at risk.
    — Matthew Gavin Frank june 12, Literary Hub, 12 June 2025
  • Rogers then faced Pollock for the second day in a row, a bad matchup for a submariner whose novelty is one of this strengths.
    — Henry Schulman, SFChronicle.com, 9 Aug. 2020
  • At least 23 submariners were thought to have survived the initial explosions.
    — Mark Joseph, Newsweek, 24 Feb. 2025
  • These submariners will then press on, continuing their voyage under the icy sea in silence.
    — Kenny Holston, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2024
  • The specific details of most of MacVean’s years as a submariner are not widely known.
    — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Mookie Betts, who led off and played right field, went one for two with a double off submariner Tyler Rogers.
    — Los Angeles Times, 2 Mar. 2021
  • By the end of the war, a staggering 75 percent of all German submariners had been killed.
    — Foreign Affairs, 16 Dec. 2025
  • Crews were able to recover only about a third of it, along with the bodies of six Soviet submariners.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Apr. 2024
  • When Cole caught up with O’Day one day that season, the submariner raved about Bello.
    — Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 22 May 2026
  • Life for American submariners in World War II was not quite so bleak.
    — Foreign Affairs, 16 Dec. 2025
  • The goal of the campaign, which will run through the end of October, was to help the service attract the next generation of submariners.
    — Peter Suciu, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2024
  • And as things stand, San Francisco’s bullpen could desperately use someone like the submariner.
    — Justice Delos Santos, Mercury News, 7 July 2026
  • The Navy also has unleashed submariners, with a sub sinking an Iranian ship with a torpedo.
    — Charles Selle, Chicago Tribune, 4 Mar. 2026
  • Mays, a submariner for the Yankees, fired an high inside fastball to Chapman of the Indians.
    — Victor Mather, New York Times, 23 Nov. 2016
  • William served more than a half decade as a Navy submariner, getting out of the service long before his younger brother, Walter, enlisted.
    — Ben Kesling, WSJ, 28 May 2021
  • The service is creating a unit designed to teach submariners how to fight their Russian and Chinese counterparts.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 8 Nov. 2018
  • It’s been used by submariners since the 1980s to determine whether military personnel are fit to spend months at the bottom of the ocean.
    — NBC News, 19 June 2017
  • The 33-year-old Japanese import is a pure submariner whose velocity tops out in the mid-80s.
    — Jeff Sanders, sandiegouniontribune.com, 5 Feb. 2018
  • The 28-year-old submariner pitched the team’s only perfect inning, getting three groundballs without throwing a pitch faster than 83 mph.
    — Henry Schulman, SFChronicle.com, 27 Aug. 2019
  • The two spoke about his extensive journey from peanut farmer to submariner; from the Governor’s mansion to the White House, and back home to Plains.
    — Sally Susman, TIME, 29 Dec. 2024
  • The changes to the ship's design were made to accommodate the growing number of women who join the Navy as submariners, Stars and Stripes reported.
    — Rebecca Cohen, NBC News, 14 Sep. 2024
  • When bombings hit Madrid in 2004, Salles didn’t inform submariners who were at sea for the ballistic flotilla that was then under his command.
    — John Leicester, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Mar. 2020
  • Loni Hansell, a dental technician, and Scott Smith, the submariner who can only see surface targets ripe for picking from a fast attack under the waves lethal machine.
    — Arkansas Online, 12 Dec. 2022
  • Of that trio, Hill, a submariner who ranked second last season in induced groundball rate (48 percent) among relievers, is likely to see immediate action.
    — Johnny Flores Jr, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2026
  • Of that trio, Hill, a submariner who ranked second last season in induced groundball rate (48 percent) among relievers, is likely to see immediate action.
    — Johnny Flores Jr, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2026
  • Rupert loved science and enlisted in the Navy after graduating from high school in Connecticut, hopeful for a career as a nuclear submariner.
    — Brianna Bailey, The Frontier, 14 Mar. 2026

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