How to Use crewmate in a Sentence

crewmate

noun
  • Cassell and his two crewmates in Louisville aren’t on it.
    Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Mar. 2023
  • In one session, Ping and her crewmates pull through the water.
    John Branch Adam Stoltman, New York Times, 14 July 2023
  • One rescuer, held up by two crewmates, is seen reaching up to remove the flag from the side of a home.
    Nancy Coleman, CNN, 10 July 2017
  • One of Felipe’s crewmates showed up at his home asking for him.
    Samantha Schmidt, Washington Post, 1 Nov. 2023
  • Max Oliver is an old salt, but compared to his 103-year-old crewmate, Max is but a child - her child.
    Steve Hartman, CBS News, 14 July 2023
  • Packard was pulled out of the water by a crewmate, rushed ashore, and taken to a nearby hospital.
    Evan Simko-Bednarski, CNN, 11 June 2021
  • His crewmate Gerrit de Veer published a book telling the story.
    Michael O’Donnell, WSJ, 24 Dec. 2020
  • Kohler and her crewmates put on their wildfire gear — fire-resistant pants and jackets — and drove in a pickup to the scene.
    Jon Schuppe, NBC News, 19 Sep. 2023
  • While one of his crewmates recorded, Illet grabbed a pike pole and peeled the octopus off the raptor.
    Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 14 June 2019
  • Dysart, along with the captain and another crewmate were inside when the waves hit, Nguyen said, and were able to deploy the boat’s life raft and save the others.
    Washington Post, 29 Mar. 2018
  • Koch smiled and gave a thumbs-up as support crew helped her get out of the capsule and placed her in a chair for a quick post-flight check-up alongside her crewmates.
    Anchorage Daily News, 6 Feb. 2020
  • The driver yelled the evacuation order out the window and honked, but Jones and her crewmate could not hear.
    Matthias Gafni, SFChronicle.com, 25 Oct. 2020
  • To the world’s horror, Christa McAuliffe perished along with her crewmates in the Challenger disaster.
    BostonGlobe.com, 8 Dec. 2019
  • Expect at least cameo appearances by old crewmates, and a dog.
    Los Angeles Times, 1 Jan. 2020
  • Virts’ former space station crewmate, Russian Gennady Padalka, was on the first two legs of the flight.
    Washington Post, 11 July 2019
  • The celebrities will compete in missions and will vote to eliminate one of their crewmates each week, sending them back to Earth.
    Sophia Scorziello, Variety, 4 May 2023
  • In images captured by his crewmates, Schweickart exits the craft in space with a brilliant view of Earth behind him.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN, 27 Mar. 2020
  • By the time best picture was announced at the Oscars, Medel’s cast and crewmates had already claimed six Academy Awards.
    J. Besl, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Mar. 2023
  • Two crewmates who launched with Whitson in November returned to Earth three months ago.
    Author: Irene Klotz, Alaska Dispatch News, 3 Sep. 2017
  • Collins, who orbited the moon in the mother ship while his crewmates were on the surface, was keenly aware that failure was an option.
    Anchorage Daily News, 23 June 2019
  • Certain’s captors beat him with their fists as his crewmate protested.
    Jeremy Redmon, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Oct. 2023
  • The orbiter exploded shortly after liftoff — killing McAuliffe and all six of her crewmates.
    Thom Patterson, CNN, 18 May 2018
  • Many of the sailors, Felipe and his two crewmates among them, stayed on their vessels out of a sense of duty to protect them from the storm, family members said.
    Samantha Schmidt, Washington Post, 1 Nov. 2023
  • Responding to the episode, Margot posted at length on Instagram, thanking fans of the show and also the crewmates who stood by her.
    Louis Staples, Rolling Stone, 9 Aug. 2023
  • The entire process of deploying and securing their crewmate to the stretcher should take less than 10 minutes.
    Allen Kim, CNN, 20 June 2019
  • Officials have told media that, during the boarding, one of the SEALs fell into the sea and the other went in after in an attempt to save his crewmate.
    TIME, 22 Jan. 2024
  • In the past, umps knew where to find gaps in the game — between pitches, between hitters, between innings — to catch their breath, collect their thoughts, check in with crewmates.
    Devin Gordon, New York Times, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Hague and his crewmate, Russian cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin, emerged unscathed, but this was the first such event for the Russians in 35 years.
    Alex Stuckey, Houston Chronicle, 12 July 2019
  • Barratt is making his third spaceflight while his three crewmates are making their first.
    William Harwood, CBS News, 3 Mar. 2024
  • Porters greeting the ships found a grisly sight: a few ill sailors, their bodies ravaged with black, oozing buboes, standing on deck among their dead crewmates.
    Fox News, 22 Apr. 2020

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