messages

Example Sentences

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"I suppose the Handsome Sailor may do many things forbidden to his messmates," says Claggart.

From Time Magazine Archive

One morning late in May the Tira was gone from her mooring, and gone from their Santa Cruz homes were Lyle Tara and two of his Irish messmates, 17-year-old James Henninger and 16-year-old William Grace.

From Time Magazine Archive

His new Navy messmates fondly call their ship the "Sand Pebble," and come equipped with the kind of melting-pot surnames�like Stawski and Shanahan�preferred in U.S. service epics.

From Time Magazine Archive

I know what messmates, shipmates, skymates think of Byrd.

From Time Magazine Archive

Never mind, they were shipmates and messmates, and they settled down together as well as they could.

From Harry Milvaine The Wanderings of a Wayward Boy by Stables, Gordon