Sentence examples for hapless crew from inspiring English sources

Jesse Plemons, J B Smoove and Pasha D. Lychnikoff slot in nicely as Pete's hapless crew (four guys to renovate one modest kitchen?), and Margo Harshman plays Alex's younger sister, Screwsie, with droll sass.

With only a handful of low-key resorts, there was never going to be much risk of the Essex's hapless crew fetching up on a jarring parade of neon-signed shops peddling water-wings or advertising jet-skis for hire.

Having dispatched his captain, Comstock sallied forth across the Pacific, announcing to the hapless crew that if anyone saw a sail and did not report it he would be bound hand and foot and cooked in the whalers' try-pots of boiling oil.

A Death in Belmont by Sebastian Junger 266pp, Fourth Estate, £14.99 Sebastian Junger had a terrible problem: what to do after The Perfect Storm, his superb account of a northeaster that swept the coast of New England in 1991 and drowned the hapless crew of a fishing trawler, later made into a gripping film.

The CIA has consistently denied any involvement with the hapless crew or any private aid network, but Southern Air officials reluctantly began changing their story as the revelations continued.

To raise money for food, some have tried, but failed, to sell their blood to Kalba's health clinic.This sad little story is being mirrored all over the Gulf: hapless crews find themselves having to beg for rations while their impounded vessels lie idle in port.

Actors Chris Barrie, Danny John-Jules and Robert Llewellyn will also be returning to their roles as Lister's hapless fellow crew members on board the Red Dwarf.

In his version of Pirandello's Six Characters in Search of an Author, the Mother's operatic high intensity, all swooning and grief-torn, coloratura wails, at first elicited sniggers from the audience and bafflement from the hapless documentary crew, who find themselves telling the characters' story.

The actual result was the blocking of Buenos Aires' main street for six hours, the ransacking of the shops in the area, the theft of a McDonalds sign, 30 arrests and a burnt-out TV van that was trying to cover the party (they set fire to it as the hapless camera crew escaped via the windows).

Under the guidance of a local shipwright named Moynihan, the boys at the Fisheries School built O'Brien's Saoirse — Gaelic for "freedom" — which he and a hapless, ever-changing crew sailed around the world from 1923 to 1925.

Its substitute, highly flammable hydrogen, ensured the death of those hapless passengers and their crew in 1937.