Example sentences for: commodore

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

  • I didn't know anyone with a DOS system in the early '80s, but I knew plenty of people with Commodore 64s, TI 99-4As, Apple IIs, computers by Tandy, and even Timex--all with distinct and incompatible operating systems.

  • On 3 March 1776, a rebel squadron under Commodore Esek Hopkins arrived and occupied Nassau for two weeks, a bloodless undertaking that emptied the island’s forts of arms and other military supplies.

  • The humiliating visit of the black ships of Commodore Matthew Perry, demanding trade rights and treaty concessions for the United States, was still two decades away, and the Japanese could retain for a little longer the illusion that their two centuries of peace and feudal harmony would last forever.

  • It was off the coast here that Commodore Matthew Perry, ordered by the US government to open diplomatic relation with Japan by force if necessary, anchored his fleet of black ships.

  • “Fxxx the fxxxing torpedoes, full fxxxing speed ahead,” as your bloody commodore once said.


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