deckhand - use in sentences

Preposition: on

  • ship: Back in 1849, it wasn't much fun being a deckhand on the ships that took the fortune hunters out to the New World.

Adjective modifier

  • young: On a bottom ship a young inefficient lad typically finds himself adjusting to a group of mainly very old and very young deckhands.

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