How to Use airman in a Sentence

airman

noun
  • Most of the airmen would walk out, catch my eye, look down and move on.
    — Michael Clevenger, The Courier-Journal, 21 Apr. 2018
  • Rumsby's wife is the great niece of one of the deceased airmen.
    — Michael Kunzelman, baltimoresun.com, 11 Nov. 2019
  • Some airmen prefer more time off - getting a shift off is huge for them.
    — Jim Clash, Forbes, 3 Sep. 2024
  • Watch the video above to see the airman sprint to hug her little sister.
    — Seth Carnell, USA Today, 9 Jan. 2026
  • But how to explain this is in a way that was easy for draftee airmen to quickly pick up?
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 8 Nov. 2017
  • But the menu is mostly sports-bar fare, and many airmen choose to pack their own meals instead.
    — Danielle McNally, Marie Claire, 8 Sep. 2017
  • The two airman inside the jet were said to have escaped safely.
    — Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 29 Apr. 2025
  • All but one of the fallen airmen have been survived by their children.
    — Maria Pasquini, PEOPLE.com, 3 May 2018
  • The airmen were the nation’s first all-Black air fighter squadron.
    — Corey Williams, Detroit Free Press, 18 Aug. 2023
  • An airman guides the boom with a joystick and a system of seven cameras.
    — Tony Capaccio, chicagotribune.com, 20 June 2018
  • Friend worked to keep the memory of the Tuskegee airmen alive until the end.
    — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian, 26 June 2019
  • The amount of the bonuses will vary depending on how long the airmen are willing to stay on board.
    — Chris Morris, Fortune, 11 Dec. 2023
  • Thousands of current and former airmen and women live in the area.
    — Julie K. Brown, Miami Herald, 10 May 2024
  • Families and friends of the new airmen had to watch it on the wing’s Facebook page.
    — Sig Christenson, ExpressNews.com, 19 Mar. 2020
  • Walls cut Alger's throat and shot him in the head when the airman continued to fight.
    — CBS News, 18 Dec. 2025
  • An airman was killed in the explosion, and the complex was destroyed.
    — Bill Bowden, Arkansas Online, 27 June 2021
  • While both airmen in one of the planes perished, the two men in the other aircraft were not hurt, Col.
    — Ashley Boucher, PEOPLE.com, 21 Nov. 2019
  • Soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines have been underpaid for too long.
    — Paul Bedard, The Washington Examiner, 27 Dec. 2025
  • At the end of the video, the airman can be seen greeting a man, a woman and a dog who were all stranded on the island.
    — Elizabeth Pritchett, Fox News, 2 Oct. 2022
  • For him and other Black airmen, the waivers became a symbol of unity.
    — Marquise Francis, NBC news, 24 May 2025
  • Videos posted online showed locals from the area where the jet went down forming search parties to find the airman.
    — Richard Hall, Time, 6 Apr. 2026
  • By the next war, British airmen were offering £5—more than their weekly pay—for a copy.
    — Richard Snow, WSJ, 17 Jan. 2020
  • Armed Iranians were seen combing the terrain in search of the airman.
    — James Laporta, CBS News, 5 Apr. 2026
  • The Air Force will not release the airman's name unless charges are preferred.
    — Luis Martinez, ABC News, 21 June 2022
  • When the children were in sight, Halvorsen ordered an airman to push the packages out of the flare chute.
    — Nate Carlisle, The Salt Lake Tribune, 17 Feb. 2022
  • When help arrived, the men found Nemo stretched across the airman’s chest, protecting him, as the dog had been trained.
    — Washington Post, 1 Aug. 2014
  • As much as the airframe loss hurts, the loss of 15 experienced airmen might hurt worse.
    — David Axe, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2024
  • His airman’s certificate will be suspended for a year.
    — Shannon Tyler, Idaho Statesman, 15 Apr. 2026
  • The last, a 22-year-old airman from California, went down with the plane.
    — Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Sep. 2023
  • Enemy forces had moved within two miles of the airman's position.
    — Lucia I Suarez Sang, CBS News, 7 Apr. 2026

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