Sentence examples for a captain on from inspiring English sources

BRUCE HEDLUND, who flies wide-body 767s on transcontinental routes as a captain on a major carrier, is one of those affable pilots who enjoys standing by the cockpit door and saying hello to arriving passengers.

Mr. Sokolov finally retreated, as he had arrived, expressionless, with a brusque nod, bent slightly at the waist, one hand fastened behind his back like a captain on the deck of his ship, facing into a nasty head wind.

"He's at everything," said Jill Cardella, a captain on the women's hockey team.

I was also a captain on my swim team and taught riding lessons.

He left the Marine Corps as a captain on Sept. 1, 2006.

"It's always easier to be a captain on a successful team," Coach Scott Gordon said.

Wait just a minute — an Aussie captain on one of Americas greatest sailboats?

"He's become more grandfatherly," said Olayos, who was a team captain on one of Montelli's early teams.

He spent several months recovering in a hospital before ultimately taking an assignment as a gun captain on a destroyer in the Pacific theater in 1942.

McCoist had been a team captain on A Question of Sport for several years by this point, and was therefore fully banter-hardened for the cameras.

Marcus Brigstocke is a comic and a presenter and a team captain on Argumental, Mondays, on Dave.