Sentence examples for driving the ship from inspiring English sources

"driving the ship" is a correct and usable part of a sentence in written English.
You can use it whenever you want to describe someone or something that is in control or leading a situation or activity. Example: The captain was responsible for driving the ship safely through the stormy waters.

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But he did not follow normal protocols for driving the ship through busy shipping lanes, and ran a bridge in which the surface officers under his command felt tense and unable to offer their input, the officers said.

"Or do we want the executive office to continue driving the ship?

Troude stated that he had not only driven all of these ships off, but that he had also completely destroyed Venerable by driving the ship ashore.

Troude claimed that he had not only driven all of these ships off and completely destroyed Venerable by driving the ship ashore by 07:00, but that he had then waited nearby until 10 00 in the hope of resuming the action.

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The delay proved disastrous: two days after departing, a westerly gale blew up, dispersing the fleet and driving the ships back to port.

We have moved into a new paradigm in which surveillance technology which renders everyone a suspect is driving the bureaucratic ship that once was our democratic republic.

The work of driving the cars off the ship and onto the dock is performed by a separate team, he said.

In addition to his cannon fire, Hood called up his marines and ordered them to fire volleys of musket shot at the deck of the French ship, driving the crew out of sight but still failing to secure the surrender from Captain Trullet.

On 1 August she took part in what was probably the first fully combined air, sea and land military operation in history, when she and her Campania seaplanes joined Allied ground forces and other ships in driving the Bolsheviks out of their fortifications on Modyugski Island at the mouth of the Northern Dvina River in Russia.

This policy exposed them to attack by German submarines, and after the German declaration of unrestricted submarine warfare in February 1917, several Brazilian ships were sunk, driving the country closer to declaring war on the Central Powers.

And I see what happens when a person like me is driving that ship.

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