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.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 8, 2026
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 • Oct. 7, 2025
A submariner who was on board one of those long patrols described to me a worrying situation in which the crew ran low on food and medicines.
From BBC • May 12, 2025
"The Type 096s are going to be a nightmare," said retired submariner and naval technical intelligence analyst Christopher Carlson, one of the researchers.
From Reuters • Oct. 9, 2023
The young submariner was sinking into blank white.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
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