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crew - use in sentences
Object
- yacht: If you prefer to stay on land at night you can charter a crewed yacht for a day.
Converse of object
- assemble: The lifeboat crew assembled but fortunately the 2 children were found before it was necessary to launch the lifeboats.
Adjective modifier
- motley: Who dares take on the spirits of the motley crew?
- loco: Someone had omitted to ask the loco crew to take it easy.
- experienced: Our experienced flight crew take regular 6 monthly flight checks in a flight simulator and in real aircraft.
- winning: The captain of the winning crew was Flt Lt G E Norton, and his navigator was Flt Lt H S Pinder.
- intrepid: What makes the book so funny are the tales and escapades along the way encountered by Eric and his intrepid crew.
- entire: An evacuation message can be sent to incident teams or the entire crew.
Modifies a noun
- member: Crew members of the Happy Fellow suffered personal injury.
- neck: Mine was for a crew neck so I cut a template from cardboard - a half circle 7 " across and 4 " deep.
Noun used with modifier
- ambulance: At the scene, ambulance crews treated four patients in total.
- cabin: Cabin crew have to be prepared to work on any day of the year, at any time of the day.
- lifeboat: A number of the lifeboat crew suffered minor injuries.
- camera: Outside the Body Zone there were two camera crews.
- fire: Fire crews from Wallasey fire station, Wirral were alerted to the fire at around 4am last night.
- bomber: You would be forgiven for thinking a fringe play about a World War II bomber crew would have a fairly eclectic take on events.
Possessives
- landing-master: The landing-master's crew were occupied in assisting the millwrights in laying the railways to hand.
- ship: Once the island is reached, sides are chosen - the mutinous pirates against the ship's crew.
Preposition: of
- astronaut: The Challenger blew up 73 seconds after lift off and it killed the crew of seven astronauts.
- ship: On the church wall is a memorial plaque to the crew of a Greek ship lost in a storm in the twenties.
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