Example sentences for: skipper

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

  • To most people in the English-speaking world, Aye means yes, as in that well-worn phrase, Aye, aye, skipper.

  • My skipper turned to me.

  • Under the headline "Clinton Presidency Holed by Starr," the conservative British tabloid Daily Mail said in its main editorial Thursday that "even if the Clinton presidency is able to run its course, it already resembles a drifting hulk, gutted by the tawdry activities of its skipper, bereft of the moral authority and energising spirit that should emanate from his great office."

  • Sergeants are addressed from time to time as Sarge , but much more usually as Skipper or Skip ; and they are always referred to indirectly as such: He's a skipper on M division.

  • The Wall Street Journal runs a feature on the first-ever relieving for cause of a Trident nuclear missile submarine skipper.


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