How to Use seaman in a Sentence

seaman

noun

• He was reassigned as a seaman and put on the crew of the ship.
  — Washington Post, 5 Aug. 2021
• On the left is sergeant seaman first class Norman Thomas and me.
  — Glen Barber, The Denver Post, 17 June 2017
• Thanks to the internet, more seamen are aware of the risks in west Africa and loth to go there.
  — The Economist, 29 June 2019
• At the end of it, the heavy seaman was pinned to the corner by gravity and fear.
  — Joshunda Sanders, Longreads, 23 May 2018
• The bag was made of sailcloth and sealed with a common seaman’s stitch.
  — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Aug. 2021
• Ames had been a merchant seaman and spent months at at time away from home.
  — Yvonne Wenger, baltimoresun.com, 9 Nov. 2020
• Caught in the middle are 23 seamen who have nothing to do with any of the three countries.
  — Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 28 July 2019
• As a young seaman, other sailors had called him racial slurs.
  — Diana Marcum, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2021
• The captain, a 26-year-old Norwegian, went to sleep about 1 a.m., leaving a novice seaman at the helm.
  — Bonnie Gross, sun-sentinel.com, 20 June 2019
• They were transferred to the fire department’s 30-foot rescue boat, but the third seaman was nowhere to be found.
  — Peter Fimrite, SFChronicle.com, 15 Nov. 2020
• The seamen were treated to a day of catch-and-release sturgeon fishing.
  — oregonlive.com, 8 June 2019
• At the gangway, about the only welcome comes from the pastor at the seaman’s church who offers the crew a ride somewhere.
  — Joseph Goldstein, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2017
• Black newcomers filled the ranks of both seamen and shipbuilders.
  — Scott Wilson, Washington Post, 24 June 2023
• Captain Edward Smith's bathtub, who, like most of its seamen, went down with the ship.
  — Charlie D'agata, CBS News, 21 Aug. 2019
• Nope, just your fellow seamen and some fish to keep you company.
  — Georgia Frances King, Quartz at Work, 16 Aug. 2019
• But Essemlali isn't so sure that the seamen are blameless.
  — Amanda Erickson, Washington Post, 13 May 2018
• Not even the families of naval seaman based here knew of its existence.
  — Jeff Opdyke, latimes.com, 23 June 2019
• Hired to find a missing person in New Orleans, a merchant seaman becomes the prey of those who hunt men for sport.
  — Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2019
• Raised on Martha’s Vineyard, Mr. Bryant was a seaman, a carpenter, a ditch digger, a logger, a cook and a dock builder.
  — Robert D. McFadden, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2020
• Raised on Martha’s Vineyard, Mr. Bryant was a seaman, a carpenter, a ditch-digger, a logger, a cook, and a dock builder.
  — Robert D. McFadden, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Jan. 2020
• My mother was 13 or 14 when she was married off to a much older man, a merchant seaman.
  — Bruce Tomaso, Dallas News, 19 Aug. 2019
• Mays was a seaman apprentice at the time and has since been promoted to seaman.
  — Julie Watson, ajc, 16 Dec. 2021
• Mays was a seaman apprentice at the time and has since been promoted to seaman.
  — Julie Watson, ajc, 16 Dec. 2021
• The average seaman on these ships doesn't make much money.
  — Tom Hallman Jr., OregonLive.com, 8 June 2017
• Was this middle-sized fellow in a seaman’s cap courting her?
  — Cynthia Ozick, The New Yorker, 14 June 2021
• The Defense Ministry said the 14 seamen were killed by toxic fumes from Monday’s blaze, the navy’s worst accident in more than a decade.
  — Vladimir Isachenkov, BostonGlobe.com, 4 July 2019
• Experienced seamen were in high demand at the time, and I’d been left with a bunch of landlubbers, green hands, and shore dunces.
  — Mike O’Brien, The New Yorker, 7 Nov. 2023
• The seaman aboard the LST agreed to transport the shell the rest of the way to Steilacoom, but getting the rowing craft aboard on open water proved to be a delicate maneuver.
  — Bill Knight, The Seattle Times, 16 June 2017
• In the fourth episode, Crozier orders the lashing of a seaman who kidnaps Lady Silence.
  — Asher Elbein, The Atlantic, 1 May 2018
• Justin Hodgins, a first-class seaman with the Canadian Navy, is very close with his little sisters.
  — Allison Moses, USA TODAY, 30 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 22 Oct 2024