How to Use shipmate in a Sentence

shipmate

noun
  • There was still no news about their captain and shipmate.
    — Sam Gillette, PEOPLE, 5 June 2026
  • 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 meantime, the shipmates waited in a city far from their homes.
    — William Wan, Washington Post, 30 Mar. 2024
  • Many have no grave to call their own, entombed beneath the seas in the arms of their shipmates.
    — The Editors, National Review, 27 May 2024
  • 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
  • In the two decades since the attack, 10 more shipmates have also died.
    — Carol Rosenberg, New York Times, 16 Aug. 2023
  • Booking too early or too late can mean missing out on perks—or paying more than your shipmates.
    — Jill Schildhouse, Southern Living, 27 Aug. 2025
  • His shipmates bury him on land, marking his grave with his prosthetic wooden horse leg.
    — EW.com, 26 Oct. 2023
  • Tunnell used his bare hands to beat out flames that had engulfed a shipmate, suffering burns in the process.
    — Fox News, 7 Feb. 2021
  • 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
  • Neither expected to find a soul mate alongside their shipmates.
    — Alix Strauss, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2017
  • The untimely loss of a fellow aviator and shipmate pains us all.
    — Los Angeles Times, 2 Aug. 2019
  • Though almost suffering death himself the poor fellow thought of his dead shipmate.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 July 2021
  • Our thoughts and condolences are with the family, friends, and shipmates of the Sailors.
    — NBC News, 25 Sep. 2019
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • When the ship received clearance, nonessential shipmates were able to head home, including Riche.
    — Hannah Kirby, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 13 Apr. 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
  • More than 30 Arizona crew members have chosen to be interred with their shipmates upon their death.
    — Sara Netzley, EW.com, 15 Apr. 2020
  • His shipmate Russell Fike, known as Larry, was only 19 when he was killed.
    — Susan Jacobson, OrlandoSentinel.com, 27 July 2017
  • Simpson as clone Walton gamely boasts a long, scraggly wig and barely-there sarong until he’s rescued by his shipmates.
    — Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 22 Apr. 2025
  • One of Giannone’s most vivid memories of that day involved his shipmate and good friend, Bobby.
    — The Arizona Republic, 26 Dec. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Finn, one of two shipmates Jamie connected with, is presumably autistic and probably one of the more honest characters in the book.
    — Sarah Huffstetler, star-telegram, 5 June 2017
  • 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

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