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Example sentences for: skipper
How can you use “skipper” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
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.
At the adjacent Constitution Museum you can computer skipper the Constitution through some of her famous battles and trace the route she took on her round the world trade mission in 1844.
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."
A few examples follow: dipper duck for the pied-billed grebe; jakes for young male turkeys (their elders are toms); loopwood or witch hobble for the hobblebush ( Viburnum alnifolium ) because the stems bend over and grow roots at the tips creating a loop that can abruptly trip a hiker in snowy woods; pippin , not for the apple, but for the tangy, red berry of wintergreen (Gaultheria procumbens); pugger for ferret; quong-queedle for the bobolink; rain crow for the cuckoo, often heard before rain; scoke (or skoke ) for pokeweed ( Phytolacca americana ) of Massachusett Indian origin; skipper for a young deer; and finally an imaginative one, whippoorwill shoes for the lady's slipper orchid (Cypripedium acaule) .
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