How to Use midshipman in a Sentence

midshipman

noun
  • Josh Kaplowitz, a 2nd class midshipman, found a quiet place near the State House to sit and talk to his mother.
    Phillip Jackson, baltimoresun.com, 17 Sep. 2020
  • Bird is the second midshipman with the Naval Academy to have died in less than two months.
    Melissa Chan, NBC News, 18 July 2022
  • From the grassy spot, the grunts and shouts of dozens of exercising midshipmen on Forrest Sherman Field float up to the grave site.
    Laurie Kellman, Fox News, 27 Aug. 2018
  • Philip went on to graduate (in 1939) from the Naval College at the top of his class and to win a coveted prize as the best all-round midshipman.
    Lily Rothman, Time, 9 Apr. 2021
  • Bonner, a slotback, and Chris High, a fullback, will return to help lead the Midshipmen’s ground game.
    Shannon Green, OrlandoSentinel.com, 27 June 2017
  • It’s a top leadership position that enables a midshipman to lead peers in achieving the goals of the brigade.
    NBC News, 3 Dec. 2020
  • Cameras caught cadets and midshipmen making the gesture -- an upside-down OK sign -- at least five times during the pre-game show.
    cleveland, 17 Dec. 2019
  • During the past 14 years, the Midshipmen have never finished lower than No.
    Shannon Green, OrlandoSentinel.com, 27 June 2017
  • Three decades ago, a tall, slender midshipman landed in South Texas and, using his sturdy back and naval know-how, set forth on building a bubble.
    Mike Finger, San Antonio Express-News, 16 June 2018
  • In their last hours as midshipmen, members of the graduating class gathered on a plaza overlooking the turf field, milling around a bronze statue of the Navy mascot, Bill the Goat.
    Nick Anderson, Washington Post, 25 May 2018
  • The task force was to take Naval Academy midshipmen on an annual training cruise.
    sandiegouniontribune.com, 27 May 2018
  • Cheap became close to a young midshipman on the Centurion named John Campbell, who had been pressed while serving on a merchant ship.
    David Grann, The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2023
  • The Academy educates midshipmen for service in the officer corps of the Navy and Marine Corps.
    Baltimore Sun, 12 May 2023
  • Second-year midshipman Kay Moore entered the Navy after high school as an enlisted sailor.
    Taylor Deville, baltimoresun.com, 4 Aug. 2021
  • Pence spoke on a warm and sunny morning to the 1,053 graduating midshipmen sitting on the field before him in white folding chairs in their dress uniforms.
    John Fritze, baltimoresun.com, 26 May 2017
  • According to court testimony, Zamora started telling other midshipmen that her boyfriend had killed a girl in Texas to prove his love for her.
    Michael Graczyk, The Seattle Times, 24 July 2018
  • When his roommate at the Naval Academy said jokingly last year that Andrew Atwill was a homosexual, the midshipman told him to cut it out.
    Taylor Deville, baltimoresun.com, 4 Aug. 2021
  • His brothers, Dylan and Jake, are both Naval Academy midshipmen.
    Houston Chronicle, 9 Feb. 2020
  • Walking the Naval Academy’s tidy brick paths, the group came upon a midshipman with a cast, slowly navigating his way across campus on crutches.
    Justin Wm. Moyer, Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2019
  • Westminster resident Tim Thomas organized the first Army-Navy football run in 1981 as a midshipman.
    Madison Bateman, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 9 Dec. 2021
  • Hundreds of midshipmen marched onto a stage built to resemble an aircraft carrier, past a replica fighter plane and a weather buoy with a fake seagull perched on top.
    Alex Prewitt, SI.com, 4 Mar. 2018
  • There were 500 midshipmen involved in pregame festivities as combat jet flew over as the national anthems played.
    A.j. Perez, USA TODAY, 3 Mar. 2018
  • Not since midshipman David Robinson has a service academy produced as prodigious a hoops talent as the 5-foot-7-inch Minato.
    John Walters, Newsweek, 27 Jan. 2016
  • His appearance has thrilled some midshipmen and dismayed others.
    Washington Post Staff, Washington Post, 25 May 2018
  • Carter said the difference between Craine's testimony and that of a former midshipman who reported an attack several years ago and left the school showed the progress the Naval Academy had made.
    Ian Duncan, baltimoresun.com, 2 May 2017
  • Bancroft Hall is the massive dormitory complex where all 4,500 midshipmen at the Naval Academy live.
    Ralph Ellis and Melissa Alonso, CNN, 22 Feb. 2020
  • Their commencement marks the end of four years of academic and military training at the elite school, and the moment when midshipmen receive their degrees and commissions as officers.
    John Fritze, baltimoresun.com, 26 May 2017
  • Tourists can watch the midshipmen’s noon mealtime formation in Tecumseh Court in front of landmark dormitory Bancroft Hall.
    Jennifer Chappell Smith, Southern Living, 16 Aug. 2017
  • In the summer, incoming freshmen, or plebes, begin a rigorous training camp (known as Plebe Summer) that turns civilians into midshipmen.
    Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 25 July 2023
  • Radio Liberty, a U.S. government network based outside Russia, reached the widow of one midshipman who confirmed his death and said that 27 crew members remained missing.
    New York Times, 17 Apr. 2022

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