Sentence examples for a skipper of from inspiring English sources
Dennis Conner, a skipper of three America's Cup champions, took fourth today to finish seventh over all.
In the port cities Barcelona and Les Sables-d'Olonne, France, he is recognized as a skipper of some of the most challenging racing sailboats in the world.
Nowadays the oldest member is Briggs S. Cunningham II, 93, who joined in 1928 and went on to be a skipper of the America's Cup and a race-car driver.
Comparing himself to a skipper of a ship in stormy seas: "The first thing he does is face the storm and guide the ship back to safety".
A publisher has the responsibility of a skipper on the bridge of a vessel, mindful always of the rigging, the weather, the course, the morale below decks and, not least, the safe delivery of the cargo, the news, good and bad.
Do not try to be a determined skipper of a ship muscling and trying to overcome a bad storm.
Root, 24, hit an unbeaten 118 on day three of the second Test against West Indies in Grenada and is tipped as a future skipper of the national side.
Gideon Irving is a professional skipper of towns.
The 65-year-old was correct on the astonishing number of interviews now required of a skipper but he totally underestimated the degree of sophistication required to manage an effective team effort.
"I have always been a leader and a talker and have been a skipper at lots of the clubs I have been at.
That recollection of Williams — a rough-cut diamond of a skipper whom the Yankees signed, then sacrificed, in the name of two home-grown "crown jewels" — was a flickering flame once secretly nurtured for 38 years.
