Example sentences for: captain

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

  • Captain Arthur Knowles and his First Mate Harold Sherman used a neat expression for the sky when a cool northwesterly breeze swept over the bay clearing out every vestige of cloud except those low to the southeast, where the warm water of the Gulf Stream condensed as a ragged range of billowy clouds.

  • The army eventually recognized that there was something badly wrong with Minor, and when he continued to serve as a medical examiner after the war, it became apparent that he was unfit for his responsibilities as a captain in the medical corps.

  • Consider the following: A boat captain comes upon a drowning woman in a lake, saves her but then rapes her.

  • The center of town has an unusual paved overlock, the Damsluis, just below the Captain’s House, dating from 1540.

  • These Western ideas, which seemed to amuse Kamehameha, were introduced by a new friend, another famous English explorer, Captain George Vancouver, who had once served under Captain Cook.


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