How to Use cameraman in a Sentence

cameraman

noun
  • His shield hit my cameraman’s chest, and then the officer punched him.
    Anchorage Daily News, 4 June 2020
  • One unlucky cameraman was bitten by a macaque in Thailand, prompting a booster rabies shot.
    Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 25 Feb. 2020
  • In the coronavirus era, family members become cameramen and dining rooms are the new studios.
    Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2020
  • Besides escapism and armchair travel, another source of distraction has emerged: the cameraman.
    Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 9 Apr. 2020
  • Footage showed an officer hitting Brace’s cameraman, Tim Myers, with a shield before grabbing his camera.
    NBC News, 5 June 2020
  • The cameraman says in the video that the sailor planned to take the boy to his Otay Ranch home.
    Andrew Dyer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 May 2022
  • Foxx appears to be healthy in the footage, throwing a peace sign to the cameraman.
    Mckinley Franklin, Variety, 9 July 2023
  • The cameraman points the camera down but keeps it rolling.
    Los Angeles Times, 4 Aug. 2021
  • And then there’s the lone cameraman, sitting in a chair right in front of all the action.
    Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2020
  • Djurestaal had to ski off course when the lens of a cameraman livestreaming the race got loose and rolled in front of her.
    Beth Bragg, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Mar. 2021
  • In the Tokyo Olympics prelims, one came for the leader and a cameraman.
    USA TODAY, 5 Aug. 2021
  • These friends prove that the farther away the cameraman, the better.
    Gabrielle Sanchez, Vulture, 19 Jan. 2021
  • There’s a gaffer, there’s a cameraman, there’s the video village over there.
    Jamil Smith, Rolling Stone, 18 Mar. 2021
  • The Fox broadcast said the cameraman was able to walk off the injury and returned to work.
    Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY, 3 Jan. 2022
  • This time, Woodruff brought his son Mack, now a cameraman, who was just 14 years old at the time of the attack.
    Katerina Rosen, ABC News, 10 Nov. 2023
  • In the clip, the cameraman walked through the aisle of a plane featuring Southwest’s old seats.
    Erin Clements, Peoplemag, 25 July 2024
  • After the game, on his way back to the locker room, the receiver shoved a cameraman to the ground.
    Mark Heim | Mheim@al.com, al, 11 Oct. 2022
  • In the slow-going days of prop flight, a cameraman could open a hatch, lean overboard and snap.
    James Joseph, Popular Mechanics, 31 Dec. 2020
  • And a television cameraman had passed by to shoot the scene.
    al, 9 Sep. 2021
  • Among those killed was a child, according to a cameraman at the scene.
    Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 5 Nov. 2023
  • Everything was planned, right down to Gosling’s kiss of the cameraman’s hand.
    Marc Malkin, Variety, 11 Mar. 2024
  • Around the same time, in a different area, a television cameraman is swarmed by youth and pulled to the ground and kicked, the video shows.
    Justin Fenton, baltimoresun.com, 14 Dec. 2020
  • Around the same time, in a different area, a television cameraman is swarmed by youths and pulled to the ground and kicked, the video shows.
    Washington Post, 24 Dec. 2020
  • The cameraman, unseen and silent, holds his nerve and keeps moving.
    Matt Jancer, WIRED, 27 June 2023
  • As the cameraman Joaquín Manchado prepared to shoot the actors in the pit, the long arm of a Scorpio 45-foot crane swooped over the scene.
    New York Times, 13 Dec. 2021
  • However, all of the close-ups in the ad, with the exception of the cameraman, appear to be of women.
    Washington Post, 15 Dec. 2021
  • The pair first met on the set of their 2001 film The Mexican, where Moder was working as a cameraman.
    Charlotte Phillipp, Peoplemag, 14 July 2024
  • In the clip, the cameraman walks through the aisle of an airplane featuring Southwest’s old seats.
    Natalia Senanayake, Peoplemag, 6 Mar. 2024
  • Richard, the cameraman, still wasn't answering the phone.
    Ben Wedeman, CNN, 4 Aug. 2020
  • His lieutenant, a trim guy in a backward Yankees cap named Sal, told the wrestlers to keep track of the roving cameraman.
    Dan Greene, The New Yorker, 24 May 2021

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