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Recent Examples of coxswainEach rowing shell held eight rowers and one coxswain ranging in age from 14 to 18, while the chase boat was operated by their coach, police said.—Kellie Love, Hartford Courant, 21 Mar. 2024 Thank heavens for Luke Slattery as the coxswain Bobby Moch, who straps on a hands-free leather and metal megaphone — a contraption that, to modern eyes, looks like a torture device for mumblers — and instantly screams some life into the picture.—Amy Nicholson, New York Times, 24 Dec. 2023 The acting is solid, particularly by Hadley Robinson as Joe’s love interest, Joyce, and Luke Slattery as Bobby Moch, who as the team’s coxswain doesn’t lift an oar but is in charge of navigation and steering.—Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post, 18 Dec. 2023 With the stature of a coxswain at five foot two, Temple is an unlikely counterweight to two armed thugs.—Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 13 Dec. 2023 See All Example Sentences for coxswain
That clash in the Spratlys near Second Thomas Shoal, on which Philippine marines are stationed in a rusting World War II naval vessel, left a Filipino crewman missing a thumb.
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Brad Lendon,
CNN Money,
29 Aug. 2025
Stamp, then 24, received a supporting actor Oscar nomination in 1963 for his screen debut as the angelic and optimistic HMS Avenger crewman Billy Budd.
But when Hugo talks to Damo about it, the deckhand isn’t too sorry.
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Rafaela Bassili,
Vulture,
2 Sep. 2025
The four employees included one male restaurant steward, one male laundry attendant, one male deckhand and a female 3rd officer on the ship, Sookyung Oh, executive director of the Hamkae Center, said, per The Virginian-Pilot.
According to the Navy, Peterson kept the ship operational and was credited with saving the lives of 123 of his shipmates before succumbing to his injuries.
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Anne Flaherty,
ABC News,
27 June 2025
And his castaway shipmate has marvelously oversized whiskers, formidable fangs and a ravenous appetite.
Conan Gray’s ‘denim behemoth’ Thick, heavy and water-absorbent — denim is, frankly, a sailor’s nightmare.
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Oscar Holland,
CNN Money,
8 Sep. 2025
Where at one time soldiers and sailors made do with fluttering flags or flashes of light to send simple messages, the modern warfighter is part of a global digital network where data rushes about like water out of a firehose and satellites act as a vital link in that network.
In 1944, Willie Wesley Thompson, a Navy seaman, saved two lives in the South Pacific.
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Curtis Bunn,
NBC news,
27 Aug. 2025
In actor-writer-director Ustinov’s tackling of Herman Melville’s seafaring 18th-century novel, the young stage actor starred as the titular naïve young seaman who suffers under the sadistic whims of his superior Claggart (Robert Ryan) and is eventually falsely accused of a crime.
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