Sentence examples for a skipper in from inspiring English sources
To be 23 and a skipper in yacht racing's oldest and most storied competition is unheard of.
Look, here he is as a wee snip of a skipper in 2002, getting his marching orders.
Mr. Bitici, a tall, dapper man of 55 with a silver mane, presides over this 66-seat restaurant with the commanding but slightly fretful air of a skipper in harbor traffic.
The Australian batting line up is all over the place, lacking an established opening partnership, no fixed abode for Shane Watson and a skipper in Michael Clarke who is peerless at five but frequently exposed at four.
Union Bancaire Prive is sponsoring a skipper in the Vende Globe Challenge 2000, a round-the-world race.
Agreeing to this proposal, Crisp became first a Seaman and by the summer of 1916 a Skipper in the Royal Naval Reserve, pulling strings to get his son on board his boat, the HM Armed Smack I'll Try, armed with a 3 pounder gun.
One is shown in the Arctic, dressed in fur; another, identified as a hermit, wears rags; a third is a boy skipper in a striped sailor shirt.
This will hurt Andrew Strauss - the last series he lost as a skipper was in the West Indies after that 51 all out in Jamaica [in 2009].
"Gareth has given Middlesbrough Football Club magnificent service as a skipper and, in very difficult circumstances, as manager," said Gibson.
("Cods are so thick by the shore that we hardly have been able to row a boat through them," a skipper observed in the early sixteen-hundreds).
If you have the good fortune to be a silver-studded blue or a large skipper in the West Country you are leaping out of your chrysalis and dancing in the sunshine.
