submariner
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of submariner
Example Sentences
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The Australian facilities “should be more than Guam, since it will have a permanent maintenance facility ashore with a dry dock,” said Bryan Clark, a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute and a former submariner.
The young submariner put on his headphones and tuned in to an American radio station.
From Literature
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U.S. shipbuilding has been sluggish, and Australia needs to recruit submariners to operate the boats.
The words of my father, a second-generation submariner, often recited when I was a child, drifted through my head: “Rocked in the cradle of the deep, I lay me down in peace to sleep.”
From Los Angeles Times
But these submariners have other things on their minds.
From Los Angeles Times
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