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Use "shipmates" in a sentence
"There were few left who even knew him by the name his shipmates had given him for his monkeylike propensity to swing through the sheets and lines."
"Particularly galling to his shipmates was the fact that not one of his minor nicks was debilitating nor resulted in one lost day of duty."
"One of my shipmates was the sole occupant of a spar, and he aided me in my attempt to grasp it, and together we floated about the great sea for several days, without a thing to eat or to drink, until I lost consciousness, and knew no more until I opened my eyes, and saw the vilest looking savages standing about me."