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Example sentences for: mates

How can you use “mates” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

After the shooting subsides, the tenderfoot hurries ahead to discover the group's medic (Giovanni Ribisi) mortally wounded, being ministered to by squadron mates hysterically pressing the dying man for instructions on how to stop his bleeding.
It's as if a female mates with one male to produce her offspring's somatic cells, and another to produce its germ cells.
The groom, aided by his warrior friend (the "best man"), kidnapped the bride, holding her in his left hand, and fought off other prospective mates, using his right hand.
She was in a car with two work mates on their way to an outside broadcast location in Spain when the disc jockey beside her pulled up her bikini top and their companion, Kara Noble, a radio presenter, took a picture of her with a breast exposed.
First, it implies that the competition for mates drives most people to save too much money.