Example sentences for: skipper

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

  • 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) .

  • The skipper, a real-life Captain Queeg, deserved to get bounced.

  • "One makes Skipper.

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

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


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