The spacemen vanished through the valve and the massive door slid closed.
Spacemen and Planeteers alike had a way of using the phrase, "By Gemini!
So dirty that I don’t want my spacemento fool with it.
He legged it down the corridor in long leaps, muttering apologies as blue-clad spacemen and cadets moved to the wall to let him pass.
Koa seemed to take it for granted that thespacemen would give them a rough time.
Around him, thespacemen were settling in their acceleration seats or snapping belts to safety hooks.
Now, although few spacemen knew the history of the phrase, they were using it again, correctly.
Lieutenant, today the spacemen honor the Planeteers because of you.
There was no danger to the spacemen since they had clapped on respirators the moment the warning sounded.
Rip stared at the Connie spacemen in their red tunics and gray trousers.
Trigger happy space bums," the spacemen called them, and much worse besides.
As Major Joe Barris had told the officers of Rip’s class, "You might say that the spacemen own space, but we Planeteers own everything solid that’s found in it.
The two things spacemen can’t do are breathe high vack and keep their mouths shut.
Rip would have been surprised at the deputy’s quick assent if Commander O’Brine hadn’t shown him that the spacemen were ready to do anything possible to aid the Planeteers.
The bad feeling between spacemen and the Special Order Squadrons had started about 18 years ago when the cruiser Icarus had taken the first Planeteers to Mercury.
The crews were reported dead, so everybody got the idea that spacemen couldn't live if they landed.
The story would spread like wildfire: Spacemen kill an American Air Force Pilot!
It was possible, I knew, that the spacemen might look grotesque to us.
News stories would not have the same impact now, even if they did report that spacemen had downed the pilot.
I gave up trying to imagine how thespacemen might look.
These spacemen apparently lacked belligerence; there had been no sign of hostility through all the years.
In a very small way I am repaying to you in kind--an item which I made, myself, and which I know that some spacemen use inside their Archers.
As for Dunnan's own mercenary company, there were about a score of former spacemen among them; the rest graded down from bandits through thugs and sneak-thieves to barroom bums.
Almost a full spaceship complement, officers andspacemen of every kind.
He wondered if it were Duke Angus himself, or just some of his people come ahead of him.
There's one moon, almost solid nickel iron, and fissionable-ore deposits.
It wouldn't cost men and ship-damage and ammunition, either.
The spacemen he knew, they all belonged to the Society and even those born long after him had much in common.
The word will pass, year after year, always to a different combination of spacemen and colonists, with always a proportion who're furious about what was decided while they slept.
Not that spacemen indulged in such poetics; they had too much work to do.
This is as good as spacemen get to be nowadays, careless, superstitious, jabbering among each other in languages I don't understand.
There were three bridges spanning the river, but most of the time they went unused, except by spacemen going back home or by spacemen going to the spaceport for embarkation.
That is why all spacemen carry PON, paraoxylnebutal, with them.
Earth has enough people of her own; she's not interested in finding jobs for kid spacemen who jump ship.
Travelling at speeds close to that of light, spacemen lived at an accelerated pace.
He's a skunk and ought to be behind bars--but so far no one has been able to produce any real evidence of what all spacemen know must be true.
Yet such was the man's evil reputation that all honest spacemen hated him, even as they were somewhat in fear of him.
It seemed to the big cadet that the metal he was cutting, alloyed to protect spacemen against the dangers of the void, was now threatening to cost Tom's life, if indeed he still survived.
It will be, with spacemen like Kit Barnard, Charley Brett, and the other men of the big outfits competing.
The twospacemen clung together blinded by the dense methane ammonia that would kill them in thirty seconds should their oxygen masks fail.
Walking slowly and cautiously, the two spacemen angled to the left, peering through the clouds of gas that seemed to get thicker as they moved along.
When the two spacemenwere out of earshot, Tom turned to Roger.
Keeping the cables taut between them, so the chamber wouldn't touch the concrete strip, the two spacemen made perfect landings, coming to a stop directly in front of the control tower.
Sweating, his body streaked with grease, the belt of rocketman's tools swinging from his hips, Astro pounded the two spacemen on the back.
The three spacemen whirled at the sound of the voice and were dumfounded by the appearance of Quent Miles, standing to one side of the hatch, holding an automatic paralo-ray rifle, trained on them.
Gloomily the four young spacemen turned away from the ramp and headed for the control tower to hear the latest reports from the ships already underway.
Almost running, the two spacemen disappeared into the swirling mist of deadly gases.
The three fledgling spacemen were silent, watching and listening with awe and envy as the Polaris crew continued their indoctrination.
Ross climbed down from the control panel and stripped the three helpless spacemenof their weapons.
Both spacemen were reluctant to voice any predictions of the outcome of the race, but Tom noticed that Kit was smiling and seemed in good spirits.
Quickly the three spacemen clamped their space helmets closed and adjusted the oxygen nozzles.
He wanted us to celebrate as spacemen should, for he knew that this would be his last night on Earth.
Yes, siree, I got twenty-four hours, and we'll celebrate as goodspacemen should!
He saw, now, that the Lhari spaceports in human worlds were built to create, for the spacemen so far from their native worlds, some feeling of home.
None of our family have ever beenspacemen before," he explained, "and they don't understand that living on one planet would drive me out of my mind.
But then, it's no surprise to anyone that you have courage, Bartol.
The unbelievable reaction of warp-drive thrust them through space faster than the lights of the surrounding stars, faster than imagination could follow.
Meta stepped between Bart and the officer, reaching for a roll of bandage.
Under the bright pictures of spacemen were the captions: "A Space Officer Is Honest" "A Space Officer Is Loyal.
And three windsuited spacemen stood behind Maggie, helmets in their hands.
The spacemen couldn't have heard sounds of the struggle, but they might have noticed movement.
Or-- There were old wives' tales of a group of renegade spacemen who operated from the Solar System's frontiers.
You came to Hoover City in the hope of finding a renegade group of spacemen who operate beyond Mars.
Slowly, at times unevenly, the message flashed and the two spacemen read it with gladdening hearts.
The four spacemen immediately began the routine task of landing their ship safely on the satellite colony.
The two veteran spacemen left the office without further comment and rode down in the vacuum elevator to the highway level.
Against a backdrop of shimmering stars that studded the velvet black emptiness of space, the freighter Dog Star rocketed toward the red planet of Mars carrying the four spacemen on the next step of their search.
In an hour the two spacemen were ready to blast off.
The two spacemen saluted their captain and turned away.
A light suddenly flashed on and the four spacemen turned to watch a large wire cage rise out of the shaft.
As the two spacemen approached the smoking ruins of the underground cradles, ammunition dumps, and repair shops, they passed groups of men digging into the rubble.
Suddenly the air-lock hatch opened again and the two spacemen stepped inside.
The chief petty officer in charge of the enlisted spacemen detail was roving through the passageways of the rocket cruiser when Tom found him.
How far down the shaft went, none of the anxious spacemenaround the hole in the splintered floor knew.
The two spacemen climbed into the small craft, and while Strong opened the outer lock, exposing them to the emptiness of space, Astro started the jets in his boat.
During the flight to Luna City, their first stop on the tour of the hangouts of outlawed spacemen across the solar system, Strong briefed his cadets on a plan of action.
Even with the equipment used on distant worlds to protect whatspacemen had come to recognize was a reasonably tough human frame, no ground force could hope to explore that wilderness in person.
How many who aren't spacemen know that we could be legally pushed into the sun and fried without any chance to prove we're innocent of carrying a new disease?
Most spacemen never do quite get over their dread of the hyperspace Jump, but with Len the dread amounted almost to a mania.
Tense, the four spacemen stood watching the graceful movements of the flyer.
And even a few spacemen with good cover and accurate throwing aim could have cut down their number a quarter or a third.
The party spent the night there, the fourspacemen wrapped in their sleeping rolls by the flitter, the aliens in their globe ship.
We'll look around and see what we can find in the way of clothing for you, Professor," one of the spacemen said.
It was hard to accept him as the man they sought, but, faced with undeniable similarity between what they expected and what they had found, the two spacemen had no alternative.
And one of the spacemen replied, "A pleasure, sir.
The eyes of the two Terran spacemen met and locked in startled inquiry.
Almost beyond reach of the planet, one of the spacemen flipped a switch and put certain sensitive communication mechanisms to work.
Spacemen and Planeteers alike had a way of using the phrase "by Gemini!
Spacemen clapped emergency respirators to their faces and spoke unkindly of Rip's Planeteers in the saltiest space language possible.
The spacemen carried them back and forth, kept them supplied, and handled their message traffic.
Spacemen jumped out, awkward at first on the no-weight surface.
Spacemen were at work on it, slowly cutting it to pieces.
Joe Barris had told the officers of Rip's class, "You might say the spacemen own space, but we Planeteers own everything solid that's found in it.
Around him the spacemen were settling in their acceleration seats or snapping belts to safety hooks.
Trigger-happy space bums," thespacemen called them, and much worse, besides.
Southwick nodded, shook hands with Rip, and said in a voice the deputy could hear, "Don't let these spacemen bother you.
Through a telescope on Earth the platform looked to be a lifeless, lonely disk, but within it, hundreds of spacemen and Planeteers went about their work.
To ourselves we're supermen, but to thespacemen we're just simps.
Rip would have been surprised at the deputy's quick assent if Commander O'Brine hadn't shown him that the spacemen were ready to do anything possible to aid the Planeteers.
It means the ship has got to return in time to give us some nuclite shielding, or we'll be the laughingstock of the Special Order Squadrons--the detachment that started a job the spacemen had to finish!
Nearly a hundred tough, battle-scarred spacemen from the enlisted ranks of the Solar Guard worked in the area, stripped to the waist, their bodies burned brown from the sun.
Tom Corbett had proven beyond the shadow of a doubt that he had the stuff true spacemenare made of, and because of this, Connel could feel as close to him as a man near his own age.
To support the ever-growing need for trained spacemen to man the rocket ships that linked the planets and distant satellite outposts, the Solar Alliance, the government of the solar system, had erected Space Academy.
She's junk-jinxed," said the man, using the expression of spacemen who believed a ship with a suspicious accident record should be junked because it was jinxed.
There was never a breed of men who were drawn so close together in their love of work as the spacemen and there was no need for further explanation.
Here, close to the ground, so close that they could feel every unevenness of its surface, it was far worse than in the windmill like craft the spacemen used on the worlds.
The people of this planet must be a little mad, Trina thought, to live cooped together as the spacemen lived, with all their world around them.
One of the spacemen swore, graphically, and there was an embarrassed silence as Trina's people pretended not to have heard.
And Trina sat and listened to the planet men talk, and to the spacemen among them who could no longer be distinguished from the native born.
Men guided their homeland in, slowly now, toward the second planet from the sun, the one that the spacemen had said was so like Earth.
Atom blaster: A gun carried by spacemen which will melt people down to a cinder.
Grav-plates: A form of magnetic shoe worn by spacemenwhile standing on the outer hull of a space ship halfway to Mars.
The three spacemen stared at the wide path left by the huge beast.
The three spacemen pounded each other on the back while the patrol of Marines watched, grinning.
The threespacemen saw the makeshift sleeping bag at the same time.
The two spacemen returned to the first floor of the building and headed for the rear door without so much as a look at the line of frozen guards along the wall.
Astro had entered the canyon near twilight, but the two spacemen got a view of the Nationalists' base under the full noon sun.
The two spacemen hesitated and then got down flat on their backs.
First just listening to the stories of the older spacemen and running errands for them, then lending a helping hand wherever he could, and finally becoming a rigger and mechanic.
The two spacemen gave no thought to their own safety.
The three spacemen moved along the trail quickly, eyes alert for any sign Astro might have left.
He'd heard of the phenomenal quantities of beer spacemen drank, and now he realized what really happened to it.
Three hours later he began to find out why spacemen didn't seem to fear dying or turning pariah.
Spacemen were ultra-sensitive to any failure in air flow.
Only by the merest chance had the vengeance of the stellar spacemen fallen then on the Russian investigators and not on his own people.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "spacemen" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
