Sentence examples for a coxswain from inspiring English sources

"I once had a coxswain that fell asleep.

She was a coxswain; he was an oarsman.

Bennett-Jones is a nasty little guy, a coxswain on the academy crew.

The vessels are powered by four oars and skippered by a coxswain.

At Oxford, bored and unchallenged, he joined the University College Boating Club as a coxswain.

The largest boats, which require eight rowers and a coxswain, are more than 60 feet long and weigh 250 pounds.

The result is that they're often terribly fitting – you'll see a little coxswain in a huge jacket or a massive guy in a tiny jacket from 100 years ago.

A quick call from a crew-mate to Lesleh Anderson Wright, a former coxswain from the Canadian Olympic rowing team, to see if Chinook Performance Racing might be willing to attempt to get us a lottery spot provided a glimmer of hope.

But this remarkably young squad with five novice rowers and a freshman coxswain were pulling off a shocking feat.

"There were bunk beds," said Noel deCordova, an 80-year-old Poughkeepsie native who was a Cornell coxswain from 1948 to '51.

Ella, for instance, was a co-captain of her high school's state championship tennis team, a guard on the basketball team and was recruited by colleges as a crew coxswain.