Example sentences for: captains

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

  • This study is part of the work of that consortium and the methods are described in detail elsewhere [ 8 36 ] . In brief, between 1993-1995 we interviewed by telephone charter boat captains from consortium states who were active in 1992 and their spouses (presumed frequent GLSCF consumers: captains cohort, n = 1863 households; approximately 83% response rate).

  • Tacoma's captains of industry and finance all ponied up for it.

  • In an experimental town whose residents pull it up by the roots each morning to see how it is doing, whose central motif is self-inspection, the authors are the professional self-inspectors, Celebration's original captains of industry.

  • The so-called Untouchables have greater opportunities now to rise on the social scale, a few of them becoming captains of industry or cabinet ministers, but it’s still their brethren who sweep the streets.

  • By my reckoning, Charlton Heston has played: a CIA director, two prophets (Moses, twice, and Brigham Young), two saints (Thomas More and John the Baptist), an admiral, two generals (as well as six captains and three majors), a cardinal (Richelieu), two kings (Macbeth and Henry VIII), and three presidents of the United States (Andrew Jackson, Thomas Jefferson, and Franklin Roosevelt's voice).


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