Sentence examples for shipmates- from inspiring English sources

My three shipmates: Naresh, Promud, 26, and Anand, 41, come from a long line of fishermen or maachiwalla, but all feel things may be changing with the next generation or two.

But his shipmates brought home the custom of sucking in the smoke, and the taste spread so rapidly that in 1604 King James I of England was prompted to issue a denunciation of the "manifold abuses of this vile custome".Vile indeed, but habit-forming and therefore lethally dangerous: it cuts short the lives of between a third and half of its practitioners.

Like Mr McCalman's shipmates, and the colourful figures who inhabit his stories, people are still trying to make sense of the reef's origins and character.

Sadly, you take their stilted view rather than letting your imagination soar with the best among the science-fiction writers.Ranko Bon Motovun, Istria, CroatiaSIR —In comparing the crew of a future Mars mission to Magellan's shipmates, you conjure up awfully poor prospects for their psychological health or even survival.

"Glorious Misadventures" is in part this extraordinary man's biography, starting from his days scratching a living in deathly dull Pskov, and plotting his rise to high favour, aided in part by a successful first marriage to the daughter of a rich merchant.His voyage to the Pacific, with shipmates even more mercurial and quarrelsome than himself, reads like an implausibly lively historical novel.

So how, on a brief sail, can one spot in an inexperienced youth the qualities needed in a month-long transatlantic passage, crammed cheek-by-jowl with shipmates?

Unlike Mr Gore's seafaring adventures, which generated a lively blogging war between Mr Gore, shipmates such as Richard Branson, and their right-wing critics, the manifesto is unlikely to set anyone's pulse racing.

Thirteen of their shipmates died, bringing to more than 50 the number of military personnel killed since the beginning of December.

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

After some confusion, his shipmates vilify him and hang the bird carcass around his neck.

After the death of his shipmates, alone and becalmed, devoid of a sense of movement or even of time passing, the mariner is in a hell created by the absence of any link with life.