Example sentences for: captain

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

  • An airplane is a "craft," and its "crew," including a "captain," "first officer," and "purser," operates from a "deck" inside a "cabin."

  • Captain's log: 0430 hours, underway in the South Atlantic Ocean, steaming northeasterly along the southern coast of Brazil.

  • Perhaps the terrorists stabbed the flight attendants to get a cockpit key, to force one of them to open the cockpit door, or to lure the captain or first officer out of the cockpit.

  • Dole rarely fished for sympathy when he retold the tale of his battle injury, leavening the reference by saying it won him a "bedpan promotion" to captain.

  • The captain tooted his horn and called out over a megaphone, "Vivano gli sposi!


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