How to Use crew in a Sentence

crew

1 of 2 noun
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  • A construction crew will begin work on the house next week.
  • There are 18 bolts around the hatch, and the crew bolts you in from the outside.
    — Wendy Grossman Kantor, Peoplemag, 21 June 2023
  • By the end of the movie, the entire crew of 200 Australians were all singing the song alone.
    — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Dec. 2023
  • Weezy rapped his way through the crowd while a crew of dancers held it down on the stage.
    — Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 12 Sep. 2023
  • But the crew would talk about ways to get the most efficient sleep.
    — Erik Piepenburg, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2023
  • Justin and Jeremy Garcia will be keen to join the crew.
    — Lars Brandle, Billboard, 16 Apr. 2024
  • As for what’s in store for the Calabasas crew is anyone’s guess.
    — John Lonsdale, Rolling Stone, 27 July 2023
  • There have been some hiccups in the crew’s quick ascent.
    — Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2023
  • On the evening of October 3rd, the crew showed up at the Select Board meeting.
    — Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 20 Dec. 2023
  • As she was being removed from the flight, the crew offered to help her with her bags.
    — Sam Burros, Peoplemag, 25 Oct. 2023
  • The center’s staff shrank to a skeleton crew, and the many ambitious projects came to a halt.
    — Joshua Hammer, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Nov. 2023
  • And Gabe revealed that even the production crew were in on his plans.
    — Kirsty Hatcher, Peoplemag, 1 Sep. 2023
  • As the lights dimmed, the show’s production crew members threw a curtain over the wrestling star.
    — Alexandra Del Rosario, Los Angeles Times, 11 Mar. 2024
  • The crew let Tung drive around listening to the song over and over while filming the scene in the early hours of the morning.
    — Malia Mendez, Los Angeles Times, 19 Aug. 2023
  • Why not nominate one person to post, tag the whole crew, and call it a day?
    — Hayley Bloomingdale, Vogue, 7 Nov. 2023
  • Search crews next found a smaller debris field with the other end of the pressure hull.
    — WIRED, 22 June 2023
  • Contact was lost with the crew an hour and 45 minutes into its dive.
    — Chloe Taylor, Fortune, 21 June 2023
  • The comments on the video commended the construction crew for their help in the rescue.
    — Abigail Celaya, The Arizona Republic, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Yet even as crew members go through their motions, the world intrudes.
    — Bethanne Patrick, Los Angeles Times, 11 Dec. 2023
  • Fire crews will be located on the perimeter of the parade route and at Union Station.
    — Joseph Hernandez, Kansas City Star, 14 Feb. 2024
  • The director is working on the visuals and getting the key crew in place.
    — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Feb. 2024
  • No one was hurt on the plane, which carried 174 passengers and six crew members.
    — Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 10 Jan. 2024
  • The crew manned the rails during a small ceremony in Eastport, the eastern-most city in the United States.
    — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Sep. 2023
  • Paige and Hogue were also photographed joining the crew for dinner.
    — Sadie Bell, Peoplemag, 6 Nov. 2023
  • The body of one of the crew members was found just hours after the crash and since then five other bodies have been recovered.
    — Siladitya Ray, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
  • One of the crew members, who’s off camera, cursed repeatedly as dark clouds formed, the wind howled and the winch struggled.
    — Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 9 June 2023
  • When crews extinguished the flames, Broder said the bodies were found in the bed of the Chevrolet pickup covered by trash and debris.
    — Caroline Silva, ajc, 1 Sep. 2023
  • The only way to quit the show is by getting injured or by being forced out by the production crew.
    — Jp Mangalindan, Peoplemag, 14 Sep. 2023
  • The crew found their way to a marshy area filled with mangroves and directed their spotlight out into the water.
    — Freda Kreier, New York Times, 24 Oct. 2023
  • Salvage crews remove wreckage from the cargo ship Dali last Tuesday.
    — Evan Perez, CNN, 15 Apr. 2024
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crew

2 of 2 verb
  • She spent a couple of years crewing on a British ship.
  • The ship was crewed by 12 men.
  • And then there’s the question of who will crew the vessels.
    — Loren Thompson, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2021
  • The second mission will be crewed fly-around, and the third will be the landing.
    — Lee Roop | [email protected], al, 15 Oct. 2019
  • The next crewed launch of the Soyuz is scheduled for December 3rd.
    — Mary Beth Griggs, The Verge, 1 Nov. 2018
  • The Hard French crew always does right by Pride and throws one of the best parties of the weekend.
    — Ryan Kost, SFChronicle.com, 22 June 2018
  • North was crewing for Brun years ago when the skipper brushed a mark on the race course.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 June 2019
  • That is the current schedule for the first crewed launch of the Space Launch System, which would fly around the moon but not land.
    — Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2018
  • This marks the first crewed support of lunar missions planned through 2030.
    — Richard Tribou, OrlandoSentinel.com, 13 Feb. 2018
  • The first crewed flight of the Orion/SLS system is targeted for the 2021 timeframe.
    — William Harwood, CBS News, 6 July 2017
  • The first crewed flight of the Dragon could take place by year-end, but SpaceX has far greater ambitions here as well.
    — NBC News, 9 Feb. 2018
  • Men and women who crew with Prophit say he can't be compared to anyone else.
    — Phoebe Wall Howard, Detroit Free Press, 24 July 2021
  • But the neighborhood changed, and in 1964 the members put the clubhouse on a barge, crewed up a tugboat and floated the club to China Basin.
    — Carl Nolte, SFChronicle.com, 9 Nov. 2019
  • There were not enough firefighters to crew the long hoses, so citizens jumped in to help.
    — Carl Nolte, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 Oct. 2021
  • Many of these ships are crewed by sailors whose spouses and children are in America.
    — WSJ, 25 May 2022
  • Ideally, Musk said 2024 would be the year to fly four BFR ships to the red planet: two crewed, two loaded with cargo.
    — Emre Kelly, USA TODAY, 29 Sep. 2017
  • The book follows the story of Cal and Leon, two sons of astronauts who fall for each other amid the drama of the world's first crewed mission to Mars.
    — Gabe Bergado, Teen Vogue, 8 May 2019
  • Today, it is not manned spaceflight, but rather crewed spaceflight.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 24 Apr. 2018
  • The salmon in trolling are caught on hooks one at a time from small boats crewed by one to three people, often family members.
    — Nancy Lord, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Aug. 2023
  • When the Stranger Things crew first wrapped season 1 — and long before the sci-fi series was a phenomenon — the cast had no idea what was next.
    — Ariana Romero, refinery29.com, 4 July 2019
  • Mary now only walks and supports the other runners by crewing for them at races.
    — Lisa McLean, baltimoresun.com, 18 May 2017
  • The agency has contracted with SpaceX and Boeing to fly future crewed missions to the space station.
    — Washington Post, 7 June 2019
  • Crewed ships are also expensive to operate and the Navy must pay people to crew them.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 13 Sep. 2021
  • Freelancers, aware of this, try to squirrel some of their fees away throughout the year to see them through to March, when productions start crewing up again.
    — K.j. Yossman, Variety, 25 May 2023
  • The rumors about the Bayside High crew getting back together are true: Saved by the Bell is getting the reboot treatment!
    — Kayla Keegan, Good Housekeeping, 16 Apr. 2020
  • Anter, 56, of Port Huron, will crew with eight others, including four teenagers.
    — Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 13 July 2018
  • Most of the ships that will arrive in New Orleans are crewed by young people who are embarking on long-leg sails to shape their skills and see different parts of the world.
    — Jennifer Larino, NOLA.com, 19 Apr. 2018
  • Rather than monkeys, the Soviet Union preferred to crew their early spacecraft with stray dogs.
    — Eric Betz, Discover Magazine, 21 Apr. 2020
  • This next-generation project is a rocket that could mount crewed expeditions to the moon or Mars.
    — Tim Fernholz, Quartz, 29 Sep. 2019
  • Apparently the cameras will start rolling in August, when the tourist season in Mykonos is at its height, and continue as Lohan and crew open the club in Rhodes.
    — Bridget Read, Vogue, 23 July 2018

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