: one with whom one shares a seat (as in a vehicle with double or paired seats)
Examples of seatmate in a Sentence
My seatmate on the flight to Rome was very friendly.
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After videos emerged of the 72-year-old on a Southwest Airlines flight out of New Orleans, Louisiana, his seatmate, Taylor Moore, shared the details of the pair's conversation in a TikTok video on Monday, October 29.
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Nina Turner, Newsweek, 30 Oct. 2024
Busy Phillips and her daughter, Birdie, had a mommy-daughter night out and shared Twizzlers with their seatmates.
—Lea Donenberg, Vogue, 25 Oct. 2024
Millions of miles of flying feels like an adequate amount of time to observe travelers struggle with bulky items, search endlessly for a gadget in a tangle of monochromatic accessories, and look longingly at their seatmate who seems to have it all together.
—Carin Ryan, Travel + Leisure, 5 Oct. 2024
In a corner booth nearby, the man himself — Mr. Ralph Lauren — was dressed in one of the brand’s polo shirts from the closing ceremony of the Olympics with USA emblazoned on the front, talking with his seatmate, First Lady Jill Biden.
—Leigh Nordstrom, WWD, 6 Sep. 2024
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Nina Turner, Newsweek, 30 Oct. 2024
Busy Phillips and her daughter, Birdie, had a mommy-daughter night out and shared Twizzlers with their seatmates.
—Lea Donenberg, Vogue, 25 Oct. 2024
Millions of miles of flying feels like an adequate amount of time to observe travelers struggle with bulky items, search endlessly for a gadget in a tangle of monochromatic accessories, and look longingly at their seatmate who seems to have it all together.
—Carin Ryan, Travel + Leisure, 5 Oct. 2024
In a corner booth nearby, the man himself — Mr. Ralph Lauren — was dressed in one of the brand’s polo shirts from the closing ceremony of the Olympics with USA emblazoned on the front, talking with his seatmate, First Lady Jill Biden.
—Leigh Nordstrom, WWD, 6 Sep. 2024
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“Seatmate.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/seatmate. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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