shipmate

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Recent Examples of shipmate Svoboda was told the engineers were crucial in keeping the ship from capsizing by counter-flooding the engine room, essentially sacrificing themselves to save as many shipmates and ships around them as possible. Sandra McDonald, Los Angeles Times, 6 Dec. 2024 As the two disrobe and begin going at it, a knock at the door heralds their shipmate Willoughby, who’s come to inquire if Claire wants seconds on the broth (alleged to be an aphrodisiac). Amy Wilkinson, Vulture, 23 Nov. 2024 Kelley has been performing under the stage name Harpy Daniels since 2013 and has performed in drag for their shipmates since at least 2017, while Trump was in office. Brooke Migdon, The Hill, 30 Oct. 2024 The ship was refurbished in 2019 and offers 10 dining options, a full-service Starbucks, and a casino for late-night bonding around the blackjack table with your new shipmates. Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 27 May 2024 See All Example Sentences for shipmate
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Noun
  • The Indonesian crewmen earned about $330 per month but did not know how much the North Koreans made.
    Choe Sang-Hun, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2025
  • Only two of the crewman were pulled into the other lifeboat that held Minch and his family, and the vessel bobbed in the darkness amid rough weather for 10 hours, experts said.
    Lauren Liebhaber, Kansas City Star, 11 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • From November 2023 until this January, the Houthis targeted more than 100 merchant vessels with missiles and drones, sinking two of them and killing four sailors.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 19 Apr. 2025
  • But those launches are usually accompanied by airspace and maritime warning notices to ensure pilots and sailors steer clear of the test.
    Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 18 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Three of the Indonesian seamen also spoke separately to The New York Times.
    Choe Sang-Hun, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2025
  • Captains and seamen alike reaped the benefits of having these scientists on board with them.
    Will McGough, Forbes.com, 26 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Robert Phillips Deckhand, Below Deck Season 8 This fill-in deckhand made his mark by slagging off Izzy Wouters after she was promoted to lead deckhand over him.
    Brian Moylan, Vulture, 31 Dec. 2024
  • While the crew had been given permission to have a few drinks with guests on the last night of charter, deckhand Culver Bradbury was seemingly overserved.
    Gina Ragusa, EW.com, 3 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • When Paris hosted the Games in 1900, a pair of Dutch rowers asked a French boy to be their coxswain.
    Jenna West, The Athletic, 6 Aug. 2024
  • Another Los Gatos boat that claimed silver medals was the Women’s Under 15 Quad-x with a coxswain.
    Phil Jensen, The Mercury News, 25 June 2024
Noun
  • Titanic analyst Parks Stephenson, metallurgist Jennifer Hooper, and master mariner Captain Chris Hearn find evidence exonerating First Officer William Murdoch, long accused of abandoning his post.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 10 Apr. 2025
  • Hazardous seas also prompted NWS meteorologists to issue a small craft advisory warning inexperienced mariners, especially those in small vessels, against venturing out into the ocean.
    Paul Du Quenoy, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Giant tortoises once flourished in vast numbers across a large swath of islands dimpling the western Indian Ocean until seafarers during the Age of Exploration from the 1400s to 1600s plundered almost all of them to extinction.
    Kevin Gepford, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Apr. 2025
  • Long-distance seafarers crossed the Mediterranean Sea far earlier than scientists had believed, a new study has found.
    Saul Elbein, The Hill, 9 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Look at this first-quarter possession: Nembhard is the Pacers’ best on-ball defender and an elite screen navigator.
    Eric Nehm, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2025
  • Opposing big men aren’t skilled screen navigators because they just aren’t used to that being required of them.
    Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 18 Apr. 2025

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“Shipmate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shipmate. Accessed 2 May. 2025.

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