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How to use cameraman in a sentence

11 example sentences · noun

Cameraman means somebody who operates a movie camera or television camera. Example: “The cameraman tracked the plane down so we have a recording of the crash.”

Examples of cameraman by meaning

nounSomebody who operates a movie camera or television camera.

  • ‘We were getting a grand shot of a charging rhino when the cameraman got scared and bolted.1932, Delos W. Lovelace, King Kong, published 1965, page 24

More sentences with cameraman

  • The cameraman tracked the plane down so we have a recording of the crash.From the entry track down
  • Allwork was an innovative cameraman, credited with the invention of the stump-cam.2006, Gideon Haigh, editor, Peter the Lord’s Cat: And Other Unexpected Obituaries from Wisden, Aurum, published 2010, →ISBN, page 6. From the entry stump-cam
  • Lela was saddled with a cameraman, shooting “B-Reel” somewhere in the fairgrounds.2005, Melissa M. Dudek, Catchers, Cows, & Nachos, page 46. From the entry B-reel
  • Here, the producer and cameraman are “shooting” Leonardo’s most famous painting, the Monna Lisa, in the Louvre.1952 April 3, “Britain’s Latest Carrier”, in The Chronicle, volume 94, number 5,337, Adelaide, S.A., →OCLC, page 5, column 2. From the entry Monna Lisa
  • A skyjack—a thirty-foot-high filming platform that rises on a hydraulic scissors lift—is in place, with a cameraman overseeing the practice.2007, Don Wallace, One Great Game. From the entry skyjack
  • But long live the spirit of the amateur cameraman, the solo recording engineer, and the lonesome knob twiddler.2005, David Kettle, Elephant Gnosis, →ISBN, page 173. From the entry knob-twiddler
  • The chances are that a cameraman requesting that his dailies be printed at the middle of the scale is cheating himself.1972, American Cinematographer - Volume 53, page 811. From the entry dailies
  • In "Great White" a local newsman and his cameraman, in order to obtain publicity, decide to lower raw meat off the pier as shark bait.2007, Donald E. Biederman et al., Law and Business of the Entertainment Industries, 5th edition, Westport, Conn.; London: Praeger…. From the entry shark bait
  • Moreover, both the official cameramen and the newsreel cameramen were required to write a detailed ‘dope sheet’ describing each shot they had taken.1975, Archives: The Journal of the British Records Association, volumes 12-13, page 16. From the entry dope sheet
  • "The secret of all successful double-exposure photography may be expressed in one word—exactitude," said Georges Benoit, cameraman for Richard Walton Tully in The Masquerader.1922 April 9, “Cameraman Talks Double Exposure”, in Los Angeles Times, retrieved 11 Aug 2011, page III-38. From the entry double exposure

Meaning of cameraman

  1. noun Somebody who operates a movie camera or television camera.

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Questions about cameraman in a sentence

How do you use cameraman in a sentence?
Cameraman is used as a noun. For example: “The cameraman tracked the plane down so we have a recording of the crash.”
What is a short sentence with cameraman?
“Allwork was an innovative cameraman, credited with the invention of the stump-cam.”
What does cameraman mean?
Cameraman means somebody who operates a movie camera or television camera.

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