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
  • If a moment comes where they’re overpowered, their shipmates will help them out, and vice versa.
    Charles Solomon, New York Times, 29 Aug. 2023
  • 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

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