crewman
Example Sentences
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The ship is now cursed: The 200 crewmen die, but the mariner lives to tell the tale, and nothing but the tale.
Kent frames his illustration of Daggoo, the African crewman, darting a sperm whale from directly behind the harpooner, depicting him in muscular silhouette.
Commander Gorringe gathered a group of crewmen around him & they disgust the situation.
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Drenched in sweat, crewmen gasped for air as oxygen levels fell and carbon dioxide levels rose closer to the lethal zone every time someone exhaled.
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It also touches on poignant personal details about the crewmen of the Edmund Fitzgerald and their families.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.