How to Use shipmate in a Sentence

shipmate

noun

• The 23-year-old died in the crash, along with nine of his shipmates.
  — Jon Kelvey, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 30 Aug. 2019
• In the two decades since the attack, 10 more shipmates have also died.
  — Carol Rosenberg, New York Times, 16 Aug. 2023
• By war’s end, 52 of his shipmates had been killed, most of them by kamikaze pilots.
  — John Wilkens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Apr. 2023
• Our thoughts and condolences are with the family, friends, and shipmates of the Sailors.
  — NBC News, 25 Sep. 2019
• For five years the shipmates labored in the cotton, rice, and sugarcane fields.
  — National Geographic, 16 Jan. 2020
• His ashes will join the remains of 44 shipmates who managed to live through the attack but wanted to be laid to rest in the ship.
  — Audrey McAvoy, Twin Cities, 7 Dec. 2019
• Bruner and several fellow shipmates shouted to a sailor on the ship moored next to the Arizona to toss over some rope.
  — NBC News, 6 Dec. 2019
• Tunnell used his bare hands to beat out flames that had engulfed a shipmate, suffering burns in the process.
  — Fox News, 7 Feb. 2021
• Franklin and his shipmates likely had seen eclipses before.
  — Carla J. Mulford, Smithsonian, 10 Aug. 2017
• Franklin and his shipmates likely had seen eclipses before.
  — Carla J. Mulford, Smithsonian, 10 Aug. 2017
• His shipmate Russell Fike, known as Larry, was only 19 when he was killed.
  — Susan Jacobson, OrlandoSentinel.com, 27 July 2017
• So should Crozier be lauded for looking out for his shipmates, or damned for going around the chain of command?
  — Benedict D. Capaldi, National Review, 7 Apr. 2020
• Mims never left the ship and was found by his shipmates hiding in an engineering space.
  — Paul Leblanc, CNN, 19 July 2017
• The untimely loss of a fellow aviator and shipmate pains us all.
  — Los Angeles Times, 2 Aug. 2019
• Even if a shipmate were to show flu symptoms, the case could be made that isolation would have prevented its spread to anyone else.
  — Morgan Hines, USA TODAY, 8 Apr. 2020
• This helped confirm that Goodsir and his shipmates buried at Beechey Island had been exposed to the same general lead sources.
  — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 30 Sep. 2018
• First in school where God was not part of the ritual, thence to some intense discussions among my fellow shipmates while serving in the US Navy.
  — Letter Writers, Twin Cities, 11 July 2019
• In Kaphar’s version, the Italian and his shipmates are literally bound up with cloth that’s been shoved into their body forms on the canvas.
  — Alicia Ault, Smithsonian, 5 Apr. 2018
• When the ship received clearance, nonessential shipmates were able to head home, including Riche.
  — Hannah Kirby, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 13 Apr. 2020
• Long John Silver, the story’s most fabled character, hurls his crutch at the back of an innocent shipmate, knocking him to the ground — then hops over to stab the man with a knife.
  — Kevin Baker, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2020
• Though almost suffering death himself the poor fellow thought of his dead shipmate.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 July 2021
• Russell also recalled that the Herald received a letter from a seaman who said a shipmate of his was onshore the night of the murder and returned to the ship with bloody clothes.
  — Katya Cengel, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 June 2021
• Eddie, Dexter and Anna all form profound bonds on the job — whether with fellow shipmates, henchmen or divers.
  — Amor Towles, New York Times, 3 Oct. 2017
• More than 30 Arizona crew members have chosen to be interred with their shipmates upon their death.
  — Sara Netzley, EW.com, 15 Apr. 2020
• One of Giannone’s most vivid memories of that day involved his shipmate and good friend, Bobby.
  — The Arizona Republic, 26 Dec. 2022
• Neither expected to find a soul mate alongside their shipmates.
  — Alix Strauss, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2017
• The sailors struggled in virtual darkness to climb out of the flood; senior sailors risked their lives to go into the water and rescue as many of their shipmates as possible.
  — Jim Talent, National Review, 15 Sep. 2017
• Leibold later received the Navy and Marine Corps Medal for heroic conduct for supporting a shipmate in the water for eight hours.
  — Diane Bell Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Aug. 2020
• That year, Prichard welcomed a 50-person delegation from Benin, the apparent homeland of most of the Clotilda shipmates.
  — Nick Tabor, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Feb. 2023
• These were my thoughts after overhearing two of my shipmates discuss the smell of burning human flesh with bemused equanimity.
  — Jackson Lears, Harper's Magazine, 9 June 2023

Last Updated: 17 Jul 2024