How to Use spaceman in a Sentence

spaceman

noun
  • The spacemen gave him a stack, shut their hatch, and flew off in haste.
    — Dan Piepenbring, Harper's Magazine, 16 Oct. 2023
  • The hardcore track beast is done up in a bold tri-color paint that echoes the look of the spaceman’s iconic suit.
    — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 9 June 2026
  • Beloved spaceman Klay Thompson went on the shelf with his own injuries.
    — Jason Gay, WSJ, 17 June 2022
  • Very, very high above, a spaceman is marooned on his shuttle, waiting for some word from Earth.
    — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 17 Dec. 2021
  • Fall’s hard-hitting metallics bring cosmic cool down to the streets—and translate spaceman shimmer into sporty chic.
    — Jamie Hawkesworth, Vogue, 25 Sep. 2018
  • The title is a nod to their time as spacemen on Firefly and Serenity.
    — Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 15 Mar. 2026
  • The world is pouring out some cold gin for the late, great Ace Frehley, the guitar spaceman of Kiss.
    — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Bruce Sterling explains what the fashion-conscious spaceman will wear in coming years.
    — John Brownlee, WIRED, 22 Dec. 2006
  • Aurora, northwest of Fort Worth, has been living off the spaceman story for more than a century.
    — Dave Lieber, Dallas News, 18 Sep. 2023
  • Unfortunately, the spaceman suffered a fall in an earthbound bathroom that left him with a chronic dizziness, which forced him to abandon the race.
    — Alice George, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Dec. 2020
  • The rounded silver tube has a circular, see-through hatch at the top, revealing the lipstick bullet sitting pretty like a spaceman in his flight suit.
    — Nicola Dall'asen, Allure, 8 Nov. 2021
  • That sense of modernity has sometimes felt absent from the movies’ sweetly old-fashioned world, which features pull-string cowboy dolls and a shiny spaceman action figure.
    — David Sims, The Atlantic, 19 June 2026
  • When murderous hippies kill Hartnett’s family and destroy his replica, the spaceman begins to break down.
    — Katcy Stephan, Variety, 15 June 2023
  • Yes, the basic scenario about a spaceman getting raped, returning to his ship, and giving unholy birth to a monster that hunts down his crewmates came from the original writing team.
    — Chris Klimek, Vulture, 26 Sep. 2025
  • As such, physics puzzler Heavenly Bodies is often a game of flailing noodle limbs and intrepid spacemen drifting out into the inky abyss.
    — Lewis Gordon, Vulture, 19 Mar. 2025
  • Only one other American — yearlong spaceman Scott Kelly — has spent longer in space on a single mission.
    — Marcia Dunn, The Seattle Times, 3 Sep. 2017
  • Its unearthly qualities are represented in part by the spaceman of Miranda’s comic.
    — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2022
  • Disney’s Lightyear is, somewhat confusingly, the movie that Andy from Toy Story watched before buying his shiny spaceman toy.
    — Dani Di Placido, Forbes, 17 June 2022
  • After recovery from the snow at the landing site near Arkalyk, these hardy spacemen then traveled two and a half hours by helicopter to Kustanay, Kazakhstan.
    — Rebecca Horne, Discover Magazine, 26 Mar. 2010
  • Pikmin, the tremendous series of strategy games about a miniature spaceman commanding an army of tiny plant people around gardens, was inspired by his gardening fascination.
    — Chris Plante, Vulture, 10 Feb. 2026
  • After tomorrow’s milestone, the spacemen will have just 27 million kilometers to go before reaching the Red Planet.
    — David Canfield, EW.com, 5 Nov. 2019
  • By fictionalizing him as a real spaceman visiting new galaxies in each era of his career, Cordell brings young readers into the magic and wonder of Bowie’s life.
    — Katie Hill, PEOPLE, 6 Jan. 2026
  • Hank Willis Thomas' photograph shows a beautiful woman in a spaceman's helmet, looming over the lunar surface and surrounded by beauty products.
    — Susan Dunne, courant.com, 12 Sep. 2017
  • As his prison sentence aboard the Galaxy One ends, a reckless spaceman (voiced by Olan Rogers) befriends an adorable green alien who turns out to be a coveted planet-destroying machine.
    — New York Times, 26 Feb. 2018
  • Over the next 44 hours, the five spacemen took turns visiting with one another, conducting scientific experiments and holding a joint news conference before separating.
    — Richard Goldstein, New York Times, 18 Mar. 2024
  • Clunky dialogue simultaneously explains too much while not explaining enough, and the initial standoff between the spacemen and the cryptic machine-defenders goes on too long for the allegory Blood Machines clearly is.
    — Peter Opaskar, Ars Technica, 20 May 2020
  • Joe Jonas shared the story of meeting the spaceman while appearing with his siblings Nick Jonas and Kevin Jonas on a recent episode of Last Meals from Mythical Kitchen.
    — Daysia Tolentino, EW.com, 5 Aug. 2025
  • The examples OpenAI gave during its beta unveiling ranged from animated a monster and kangaroo to realistic videos of people, like a woman walking down a street in Tokyo or a cinematic movie trailer of a spaceman on a salt desert.
    — James Powel, USA TODAY, 9 Dec. 2024

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