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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:

The writer is a retired Navy submarine skipper with bachelor's and master's engineering degrees, twenty graduate credits in education, and college teaching experience.
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) .
To most people in the English-speaking world, Aye means yes, as in that well-worn phrase, Aye, aye, skipper.
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.
My skipper turned to me.