seamen

Example Sentences

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Seamen, recruited on contracts that typically last six to nine months, don't always know what they're getting into.

From BBC • Feb. 10, 2026

Seamen were allowed to have their wives with them onboard unless the ship was going into battle or going for a long journey.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 4, 2023

Seamen and railroad employees, obviously; they’re mentioned in the law itself.

From Slate • Jun. 6, 2022

Baker was influenced by combustible, hyperkinetic jazz drummers like Art Blakey, Max Roach and Elvin Jones, along with the complex polyrhythms of Central Africa, shown to him by the British jazz drummer Phil Seamen.

From New York Times • Oct. 6, 2019

Seamen were the worst gossips in the world when the wine was flowing, even wine as cheap as this.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin