crewmate

noun

crew·mate | \ ˈkrü-ˌmāt

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Definition of crewmate

: a fellow crewman

Examples of crewmate in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web His crewmate Gerrit de Veer published a book telling the story. — Michael O’donnell, WSJ, "‘Icebound’ Review: Into the Void," 24 Dec. 2020 The driver yelled the evacuation order out the window and honked, but Jones and her crewmate could not hear. — Matthias Gafni, SFChronicle.com, "Exclusive: Firefighting tactics went wrong in death of contractor, near-fatal injury to inmate," 25 Oct. 2020 Porters greeting the ships found a grisly sight: a few ill sailors, their bodies ravaged with black, oozing buboes, standing on deck among their dead crewmates. — Fox News, "History's 5 deadliest pandemics and epidemics," 22 Apr. 2020 The scene played out on closed-circuit television monitoring the habitat from the surface; Mr. Barth frantically tried to get his crewmate back to the diving pod where the other two divers waited. — John Schwartz, BostonGlobe.com, "Robert Barth, 89, a pioneer of deep-sea diving," 10 Apr. 2020 Meir and Skripochka spent 205 days in space, with Meir carrying out the first three all-women spacewalks with crewmate Christina Koch, who returned from space in February. — NBC News, "ISS crew lands in Kazakhstan after more than 200 days," 17 Apr. 2020 He and his crewmates also listened to a lot of music. — Cnn Staff, CNN, "Astronaut Scott Kelly on surviving isolation: Dr. Sanjay Gupta's coronavirus podcast for April 3," 3 Apr. 2020 In images captured by his crewmates, Schweickart exits the craft in space with a brilliant view of Earth behind him. — Ashley Strickland, CNN, "Living an isolated life: Astronauts, Antarctic doctors and climbers share their advice," 27 Mar. 2020 Playing Scrabble with her U.S., Italian and Russian crewmates, as challenging as that might be in weightlessness. — Washington Post, "Astronaut Christina Koch heads home from ISS after blazing a trail for women," 30 Jan. 2020

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“Crewmate.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/crewmate. Accessed 8 Mar. 2021.

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