Sentence examples for shipmates on from inspiring English sources

"We shall be as a city on a hill," said Winthrop to his shipmates on the voyage across the Atlantic.

Members of our ship's crew went about getting autographs of their shipmates on their "Eisenhowers", which they apparently intended to keep as souvenirs of the invasion.

The savages in canoes who torture Sindbad and his shipmates on the seventh voyage may have been from the Andaman Islands.

In the first act they are circus performers, with wonderful circus music, in the second, farmers, and in the third, shipmates on a freighter.

All three, shipmates on the amphibious assault ship Wasp, were on shore leave and ended up in the hotel, at Eighth Avenue and 44th Street, after a night of carousing in Manhattan.

The sailors, shipmates on the amphibious assault ship Wasp, which returned a month ago from duty overseas, including Afghanistan, wound up in the hotel together after a night of carousing in Manhattan, the authorities said.

Bartleby's famous remark "I prefer not to" is spoken by a recalcitrant shipmate on an early cruise ("the phrase etched itself in H M's brain"), while Moby-Dick's Captain Ahab springs from the tale of a monomaniac whaling captain overheard one night on deck ("the narrative sunk deep in Herman's memory").

I am glad that you had your class write to me and my shipmates out here on the Theodore Roosevelt.... Mail is a very good thing for the morale out here, and especially something that is so sweet as the letters that your students wrote.

Looking as though he had just won the lottery, SHAQUAN DELEON, 10, was hoisted high above the Hudson River in a harnessed chair as his temporary shipmates tugged on the ropes that bound him to their schooner.

Braving Arctic winds and a dozen macho racist shipmates for a year on a fishing skiff.

He and a shipmate were on shore-leave when they went to the match.