How to Use cameraman in a Sentence

cameraman

noun
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  • The cameraman, bouncing from one foot to the other, finally knocked the insect to the ground.
    — Kevin Ambrose, Washington Post, 30 May 2017
  • Giles, sweating from a 50-minute scrimmage, did his best to give the cameraman something impressive on tape.
    — Nate Taylor, Indianapolis Star, 17 June 2017
  • In Europe with his cameraman, Thomas heard that the British had captured Jerusalem and sped there.
    — Edward Kosner, WSJ, 21 July 2017
  • At one point, police had to intervene to disperse a man and woman who were shouting at a cameraman and other reporters.
    — Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, 19 June 2017
  • Ramin Sangar, a cameraman at a television channel near the bombing site, said as he was loaded into an ambulance.
    — Mujib Mashal, Fahim Abed and Jawad Sukhanyar, New York Times, 31 May 2017
  • Another cameraman then tried to get her thoughts on president Donald Trump, but Minaj kept her lips zipped.
    — Adelle Platon, Billboard, 24 May 2017
  • Mr. Bond was a BBC cameraman at the time but satisfied his literary bent by writing on the side.
    — Philly.com, 29 June 2017
  • Cameramen entering the honeycomb of the Old City return with footage of cadavers, old and young, lying under blankets in front rooms for days.
    — The Economist, 5 July 2017
  • The cameraman says in the video that the sailor planned to take the boy to his Otay Ranch home.
    — Andrew Dyer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 May 2022
  • Dozens of reporters and cameramen drove south to the high school field.
    — Ken Belson, New York Times, 16 Nov. 2019
  • Foxx appears to be healthy in the footage, throwing a peace sign to the cameraman.
    — Mckinley Franklin, Variety, 9 July 2023
  • The cameraman points the camera down but keeps it rolling.
    — Los Angeles Times, 4 Aug. 2021
  • And then there’s the lone cameraman, sitting in a chair right in front of all the action.
    — Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2020
  • Djurestaal had to ski off course when the lens of a cameraman livestreaming the race got loose and rolled in front of her.
    — Beth Bragg, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Mar. 2021
  • In the Tokyo Olympics prelims, one came for the leader and a cameraman.
    — USA TODAY, 5 Aug. 2021
  • These friends prove that the farther away the cameraman, the better.
    — Gabrielle Sanchez, Vulture, 19 Jan. 2021
  • There’s a gaffer, there’s a cameraman, there’s the video village over there.
    — Jamil Smith, Rolling Stone, 18 Mar. 2021
  • The Fox broadcast said the cameraman was able to walk off the injury and returned to work.
    — Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY, 3 Jan. 2022
  • This time, Woodruff brought his son Mack, now a cameraman, who was just 14 years old at the time of the attack.
    — Katerina Rosen, ABC News, 10 Nov. 2023
  • Allen shifts in his seat as cameramen climb the stairs and train their lenses on him.
    — Charlotte Wilder, SI.com, 22 June 2018
  • The cameraman in Nightcrawler who begins to direct the news.
    — Belinda Luscombe, Time, 8 Aug. 2019
  • In the clip, the cameraman walked through the aisle of a plane featuring Southwest’s old seats.
    — Erin Clements, Peoplemag, 25 July 2024
  • After the game, on his way back to the locker room, the receiver shoved a cameraman to the ground.
    — Mark Heim | [email protected], al, 11 Oct. 2022
  • In the slow-going days of prop flight, a cameraman could open a hatch, lean overboard and snap.
    — James Joseph, Popular Mechanics, 31 Dec. 2020
  • And a television cameraman had passed by to shoot the scene.
    — al, 9 Sep. 2021
  • Among those killed was a child, according to a cameraman at the scene.
    — Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 5 Nov. 2023
  • The hype man yelling at roughly seven reporters/cameramen was what put it on the wrong side of the street.
    — Albert Breer, SI.com, 29 July 2019
  • Everything was planned, right down to Gosling’s kiss of the cameraman’s hand.
    — Marc Malkin, Variety, 11 Mar. 2024
  • Later, a cameraman catches Liam in the balcony, drinking beer and heckling his brother.
    — Matthew Ismael Ruiz, Vulture, 29 Aug. 2024
  • During a campaign stop in Indiana in 1968 when a TV cameraman’s battery unexpectedly caught fire and then his shirt did, too, Kennedy rushed to him to beat out the flames with her bare hands.
    — Rosemary Feitelberg, WWD, 10 Oct. 2024

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