coastguardsman
noun
coastguardsmen
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pluralof coastguardsman.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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“Hellyer, you and your shipmate had better call round at my house in the morning,” he said to his old coxswain, the elder of the two coastguardsmen.
From Bob Strong's Holidays Adrift in the Channel by John B. Greene
The coastguardsmen are practising the life-apparatus to-day, to be ready for the autumn wrecks.’
From The Hand of Ethelberta by Thomas Hardy
Seeing all my packages, the coastguardsmen naturally took us for smugglers, and were soon on the spot to seize our goods and carry them to the custom-house.
From Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 by Augustus J. C. Hare
But the gallant coastguardsmen had other work cut out for them that night.
From Saved by the Lifeboat by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
Since then I have visited it in fair weather and foul; and in time, perhaps, shall rival the coastguardsmen, who can walk it blindfold.
From Noughts and Crosses Stories, Studies and Sketches by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
