How to Use airman in a Sentence

airman

noun
  • Nor were Black airmen allowed to serve on bomber crews.
    Chris Klimek, Vulture, 8 Mar. 2024
  • If things go well, fewer airmen will fail, saving time and money.
    Sig Christenson, San Antonio Express-News, 30 June 2018
  • An airman guides the boom with a joystick and a system of seven cameras.
    Tony Capaccio, chicagotribune.com, 20 June 2018
  • And hundreds of thousands of soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines have been doing that.
    Fox News, 6 July 2018
  • Weather airmen’s forecasts help plan missions in hostile areas.
    Sig Christenson, San Antonio Express-News, 30 June 2018
  • Finding the right people to become battlefield airmen has long been an uphill battle.
    Sig Christenson, San Antonio Express-News, 30 June 2018
  • Air Force special agents recovered it Tuesday at an airman's off-base residence.
    Fox News, 21 June 2018
  • Two parachutes were seen deploying from the aircraft, indicating the airmen ejected prior to the crash, Col.
    Oriana Pawlyk, Fox News, 18 Sep. 2018
  • JTACs are the airmen on the ground who direct during close air support and strike operations alongside other services' troops.
    Sean Gallagher, Ars Technica, 19 June 2018
  • Rumsby’s wife is the great niece of one of those airmen.
    baltimoresun.com, 14 Aug. 2019
  • The airmen at Schriever are used to the idea of GPS as a target.
    Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 22 Mar. 2019
  • Rumsby's wife is the great niece of one of the deceased airmen.
    Michael Kunzelman, baltimoresun.com, 11 Nov. 2019
  • Friend worked to keep the memory of the Tuskegee airmen alive until the end.
    Meilan Solly, Smithsonian, 26 June 2019
  • Families and friends of the new airmen had to watch it on the wing’s Facebook page.
    Sig Christenson, ExpressNews.com, 19 Mar. 2020
  • The airmen were the nation’s first all-Black air fighter squadron.
    Corey Williams, Detroit Free Press, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Dear Amy: In 1956, my mother had a fling with an airman.
    Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 19 Dec. 2020
  • While both airmen in one of the planes perished, the two men in the other aircraft were not hurt, Col.
    Ashley Boucher, PEOPLE.com, 21 Nov. 2019
  • The Air Force said in a statement Wednesday that crews were still searching for the airman.
    Alex Sundby, CBS News, 6 Nov. 2019
  • At the end of the video, the airman can be seen greeting a man, a woman and a dog who were all stranded on the island.
    Elizabeth Pritchett, Fox News, 2 Oct. 2022
  • When the children were in sight, Halvorsen ordered an airman to push the packages out of the flare chute.
    Nate Carlisle, The Salt Lake Tribune, 17 Feb. 2022
  • The amount of the bonuses will vary depending on how long the airmen are willing to stay on board.
    Chris Morris, Fortune, 11 Dec. 2023
  • The last, a 22-year-old airman from California, went down with the plane.
    Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Sep. 2023
  • The Air Force will not release the airman's name unless charges are preferred.
    Luis Martinez, ABC News, 21 June 2022
  • He is believed to be the last living Tuskegee airman in Rhode Island.
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 21 May 2022
  • An airman was killed in the explosion, and the complex was destroyed.
    Bill Bowden, Arkansas Online, 27 June 2021
  • Several Guard medics were sent today, and the Guard is prepared to send up to 30 soldiers and airmen to the prison.
    Laura Johnston, cleveland, 13 Apr. 2020
  • By the next war, British airmen were offering £5—more than their weekly pay—for a copy.
    Richard Snow, WSJ, 17 Jan. 2020
  • The Air Force recently honored the famed group of airmen with the naming of its new trainer jet.
    NBC News, 9 Dec. 2019
  • As much as the airframe loss hurts, the loss of 15 experienced airmen might hurt worse.
    David Axe, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2024
  • Yet for every soldier, sailor, or airman who was killed, nearly one and a half civilians would die, totaling, by one count, almost 40 million.
    Bryan Walsh, Vox, 27 May 2024

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