Example sentences for: commodore

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

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

  • 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.

  • 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 stubborn Americans came back again in 1853, with Commodore Matthew Perry bringing for the shogun (whom he mistook for the emperor) a polite but insistent letter from President Millard Fillmore and a promise to return the next year, with a bigger squadron, for a positive response.


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