crewman

noun

Definition of crewmannext
as in shipmate

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Recent Examples of crewman Then overnight Sunday, officials said the second crewman had been recovered. — Luis Martinez, ABC News, 5 Apr. 2026 Video showed a soaked Molly among a pile of rocks as a crewman picked her up and carried her to the helicopter. — Chris Lau, CNN Money, 1 Apr. 2026 Readers of The Log may be interested in Steinbeck scholar Gregory MacDonald’s report on recollections of two other members of the 1940 expedition, crewman Sparky Enea and Captain Tony Berry, made many years after the fact. — Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 17 Mar. 2026 There had also been a man-overboard situation on another boat, although thankfully the crewman was swiftly located and successfully recovered by his teammates. — Andrew Rice, New York Times, 17 Dec. 2025 See All Example Sentences for crewman
Recent Examples of Synonyms for crewman
  1. shipmate
  2. deckhand
  3. seaman
  4. sailor
  5. coxswain
  6. navigator
  7. mariner
  8. seafarer
Noun
  • At one point, shipmate Dave Faulkner screamed as he was thrown to the bottom deck.
    — Sam Gillette, PEOPLE, 5 June 2026
  • Other dives have been conducted to inter the remains of Arizona survivors who wanted to rest eternally with their former shipmates.
    — Jim Mustian, Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2026
Definition of shipmate
Noun
  • Season ten’s Max arrives as the new deckhand, somersaulting his way in.
    — Emma Soren, Vulture, 11 Aug. 2026
  • Elsewhere in the July 17 episode, Wizard deckhand Lynn Guitard falls overboard in 15-foot seas, prompting Capt.
    — Deirdre Durkan, PEOPLE, 18 July 2026
Definition of deckhand
Noun
  • Yusiel Lopez Insua, 47, of Miami, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to seaman’s manslaughter, according to court records.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 23 July 2026
  • The operator of a tugboat that was pushing a construction barge that ran over a sailboat last summer in Biscayne Bay, killing three summer campers, pleaded guilty to seaman’s manslaughter in federal court on Tuesday.
    — David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 21 July 2026
Definition of seaman
Noun
  • Thousands of sailors remain stranded in the region, unable to return home or keep the world’s supply of oil flowing.
    — Mithil Aggarwal, NBC news, 9 Aug. 2026
  • The 45-year-old veteran sailor's journey takes him across the North Atlantic, along the Russian Arctic coast and eventually through the Northwest Passage in Canada.
    — Henry Larson, NPR, 9 Aug. 2026
Definition of sailor
Noun
  • At her new school, Teagan becomes the coxswain of a dysfunctional all-boys rowing team.
    — Katie Campione, Deadline, 12 Aug. 2026
  • The Los Gatos squad was comprised of Luke DeGraff (Los Gatos), Julian Weinstein (Los Gatos), Tristan Carpenter (Menlo-Atherton) and Declan McInerney (Los Gatos) with coxswain Kaira Yoo (Los Gatos).
    — Phil Jensen, Mercury News, 28 June 2026
Definition of coxswain
Noun
  • Allison Espeseth is Director of Covering Wisconsin, which is Wisconsin’s navigator program and a part of University of Wisconsin-Madison Division of Extension.
    — Rebecca Myerson, STAT, 10 Aug. 2026
  • Supporters of the theory believe that Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan became stranded on the remote island after failing to reach Howland Island — possibly dying as castaways.
    — Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 5 Aug. 2026
Definition of navigator
Noun
  • At one point, up to 20,000 mariners and 2,000 ships were stuck in the Gulf, with only a few vessels squeezing through the strait each day.
    — The Week US, TheWeek, 27 July 2026
  • In other developments, the International Maritime Organization said at least 6,000 mariners were stranded on about 400 vessels around the Strait of Hormuz.
    — Julia Frankel, Los Angeles Times, 24 July 2026
Definition of mariner
Noun
  • Radker acknowledged the positives in the Hapag-Lloyd proposal, including the employment commitments and the intention to train additional Israeli seafarers.
    — Glenn Taylor, Footwear News, 11 Aug. 2026
  • The yard is now designing models specifically for the new wave of seafarers, adding the space, volume, and amenities required for extended stays at sea.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 11 Aug. 2026
Definition of seafarer

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