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.

The word usage examples above have been gathered from various sources to reflect current and historical usage. They do not represent the opinions of YourDictionary.com.