deckhand

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Recent Examples of deckhand While the crew had been given permission to have a few drinks with guests on the last night of charter, deckhand Culver Bradbury was seemingly overserved. Gina Ragusa, EW.com, 3 Feb. 2025 Below Deck Sailing Yacht fans saw romance blossom for Daisy Kelliher and Keith Allen during season 5 of the Bravo show, with the finale seeing the chief stew and the deckhand sharing a kiss and pledging to meet up on land. Dave Quinn, People.com, 28 Jan. 2025 This fill-in deckhand made his mark by slagging off Izzy Wouters after she was promoted to lead deckhand over him. Brian Moylan, Vulture, 31 Dec. 2024 Girardeau also works as a deckhand for Newport Coastal Adventure, which offers ocean tours and sightseeing excursions. Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for deckhand
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Noun
  • Now, in a statement to Fox News Digital, National Museum of Denmark archaeologist David John Gregory said the two ships carried between 600 and 700 African slaves at the time of the sinking, plus around 100 crewmen.
    Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 6 May 2025
  • But the pandemic also gave Celebrity the unenviable job of repatriating thousands of crewmen to their homes around the globe — all while making sure that none encountered a member of the public.
    Jim Saunders, Sun Sentinel, 6 May 2025
Noun
  • Government as a protector of health goes way back The U.S. public health service got its start in the 1700s service cared for seamen who were sick or injured.
    Selena Simmons-Duffin, NPR, 13 May 2025
  • Lunde had joined the merchant fleet as a seaman in 1934.
    Heather Farmbrough, Forbes.com, 8 May 2025
Noun
  • One of the Indonesian shipmates recalled a time when a North Korean colleague was finally allowed to go home.
    Choe Sang-Hun, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • Or Hegseth may just be protecting young sailors with dust allergies from picking up the book.
    Peter S. Wenz, Chicago Tribune, 13 May 2025
  • The sailors are sleeping or preparing for the morning’s voyage, but a frenzied man has pushed his way aboard, looking for drugs.
    Sarah Larson, New Yorker, 12 May 2025
Noun
  • Throughout the race, the coxswain—who sits at the front of the boat—motivates the crew, steers the course and checks technique along the way.
    Caitlin MacGregor, Forbes.com, 29 Apr. 2025
  • When Paris hosted the Games in 1900, a pair of Dutch rowers asked a French boy to be their coxswain.
    Jenna West, The Athletic, 6 Aug. 2024
Noun
  • Warning notices advising pilots and mariners to steer clear of the test area indicated the missile and its hypersonic glide vehicle were supposed to splash down in the mid-Atlantic Ocean hundreds of miles north and northeast of Puerto Rico.
    Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 26 Apr. 2025
  • The city’s remaining water intake cribs — Four Mile, 68th Street, Carter H. Harrison, Edward F. Dunne, Wilson Avenue and William E. Dever — also were fitted with electrical navigation devices to aid mariners.
    Charles Selle, Chicago Tribune, 10 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Giant tortoises once flourished in vast numbers across a large swath of islands dimpling the western Indian Ocean until seafarers during the Age of Exploration from the 1400s to 1600s plundered almost all of them to extinction.
    Kevin Gepford, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Apr. 2025
  • Long-distance seafarers crossed the Mediterranean Sea far earlier than scientists had believed, a new study has found.
    Saul Elbein, The Hill, 9 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Some Micronesian navigators estimate their progress through a system known as etak.
    The Conversation, The Conversation, 14 May 2025
  • The film, set in the 16th century, follows Magellan, a young and ambitious Portuguese navigator.
    Leo Barraclough, Variety, 9 May 2025

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“Deckhand.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deckhand. Accessed 21 May. 2025.

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