How to Use spaceman in a Sentence

spaceman

noun
  • Beloved spaceman Klay Thompson went on the shelf with his own injuries.
    Jason Gay, WSJ, 17 June 2022
  • Very, very high above, a spaceman is marooned on his shuttle, waiting for some word from Earth.
    Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 17 Dec. 2021
  • Fall’s hard-hitting metallics bring cosmic cool down to the streets—and translate spaceman shimmer into sporty chic.
    Jamie Hawkesworth, Vogue, 25 Sep. 2018
  • Bruce Sterling explains what the fashion-conscious spaceman will wear in coming years.
    John Brownlee, WIRED, 22 Dec. 2006
  • Aurora, northwest of Fort Worth, has been living off the spaceman story for more than a century.
    Dave Lieber, Dallas News, 18 Sep. 2023
  • The rounded silver tube has a circular, see-through hatch at the top, revealing the lipstick bullet sitting pretty like a spaceman in his flight suit.
    Nicola Dall'asen, Allure, 8 Nov. 2021
  • Unfortunately, the spaceman suffered a fall in an earthbound bathroom that left him with a chronic dizziness, which forced him to abandon the race.
    Alice George, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Dec. 2020
  • But Adéla’s situation has one crucial difference from the spaceman’s: Adéla is dead.
    Cory Oldweiler, Washington Post, 29 Mar. 2023
  • So this is what podcasting would look like if a far-future spaceman explored the lost corners of an infinite computer.
    Darren Franich, EW.com, 7 May 2020
  • Kenzo’s take on space falls in the backward-looking camp, with its nostalgic spaceman graphics referencing the sci-fi films of Mr. Leon’s youth, as well as the days when Neil Armstrong was walking on the moon.
    Wilbert L. Cooper, WSJ, 11 Sep. 2018
  • Disney’s Lightyear is, somewhat confusingly, the movie that Andy from Toy Story watched before buying his shiny spaceman toy.
    Dani Di Placido, Forbes, 17 June 2022
  • As his prison sentence aboard the Galaxy One ends, a reckless spaceman (voiced by Olan Rogers) befriends an adorable green alien who turns out to be a coveted planet-destroying machine.
    New York Times, 26 Feb. 2018
  • Only one other American — yearlong spaceman Scott Kelly — has spent longer in space on a single mission.
    Marcia Dunn, The Seattle Times, 3 Sep. 2017
  • When murderous hippies kill Hartnett’s family and destroy his replica, the spaceman begins to break down.
    Katcy Stephan, Variety, 15 June 2023
  • After tomorrow’s milestone, the spacemen will have just 27 million kilometers to go before reaching the Red Planet.
    David Canfield, EW.com, 5 Nov. 2019
  • Newly arrived U.S. spaceman Randolph Bresnik turns 50 next month.
    Washington Post, 14 Aug. 2017
  • Hank Willis Thomas' photograph shows a beautiful woman in a spaceman's helmet, looming over the lunar surface and surrounded by beauty products.
    Susan Dunne, courant.com, 12 Sep. 2017
  • The Buzz pair similarly draws direction from the oblivious spaceman's vibe, diving deep into purple, green, and white with some multicolored eyelets like Buzz's lights.
    Pete Forester, Esquire, 5 Oct. 2016
  • Its unearthly qualities are represented in part by the spaceman of Miranda’s comic.
    Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2022
  • Clunky dialogue simultaneously explains too much while not explaining enough, and the initial standoff between the spacemen and the cryptic machine-defenders goes on too long for the allegory Blood Machines clearly is.
    Peter Opaskar, Ars Technica, 20 May 2020

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