How to Use sea captain in a Sentence

sea captain

noun

• There's something there: an eye, a crook of a mouth, a sea captain's hat, a beard...
  — Veronique Greenwood, Discover Magazine, 7 Aug. 2012
• The uniformed figure of an old sea captain snapped to salute.
  — New York Times, 12 May 2022
• Linn, a sea captain, came to Birmingham in 1871 and founded the city’s first bank.
  — al, 1 June 2020
• There was a queen dressed as a sea captain being half-eaten by a shark.
  — Jenna Wortham, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2018
• In the end, the retired sea captain Balstrode calmly tells Grimes to get in his boat and sink it out at sea.
  — Dallas News, 21 Oct. 2022
• The rooms are a modern take on a sea captain’s quarters, with fireplaces and Persian rugs.
  — Jody Rosen, Smithsonian, 14 June 2018
• Cape Disappointment itself was named by a sea captain in the late 1700s who searched in vain for a way through it.
  — Kirk Johnson Ruth Fremson, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2023
• Manos was a sea captain who had been brought up in Odessa but felt the call of Santorini, birthplace of his father.
  — Stellene Volandes, Town & Country, 24 Feb. 2022
• Dunn’s brother and a local sea captain pulled him to safety.
  — Matt McCall, National Geographic, 12 June 2019
• The letters were from a man who was not the previous owner's husband, but a sea captain.
  — Lydia Price, Peoplemag, 20 Oct. 2023
• The letters were from a man who was not the previous owner's husband, but a sea captain.
  — Lydia Price, Peoplemag, 12 Oct. 2022
• Looking every bit the sea captain, Mr. Rivers steered the barge to the edge of the boom, the thick mantle of garbage undulating on his approach.
  — New York Times, 14 June 2022
• The sea captains, sailors, explorers, naval heroes, even the pirates were all men.
  — Carl Nolte, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 Jan. 2018
• In it, a young girl gets lost, is raised by a sea captain, and later finds love — as well as her family of origin.
  — Scott Kirsner, BostonGlobe.com, 20 June 2023
• There’s an array of sea captains who’d love nothing more than to take you on a romantic sunset cruise of the Bay.
  — Kate Bradshaw, The Mercury News, 12 Feb. 2024
• On a flight during the last trip, Belt dressed as a sea captain while many young players were outfitted in sailor costumes.
  — John Shea, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Sep. 2021
• My father looked over the banister, and coming up the stairs was sort of like the apparition of a man who appeared to be like a sea captain, or a sailor type of guy.
  — Allison Stewart, chicagotribune.com, 7 Nov. 2019
• Boats were run two at a time and were eligible for different awards, such as stylish sea captains, plus a speed award.
  — Karie Angell Luc, chicagotribune.com, 23 July 2019
• One of the most colorful of those shipowners was Laskarina Bouboulina, the 50-year-old widow of a sea captain.
  — Nicholas Gage, Town & Country, 17 June 2013
• Among the people the Dutchman meets at the bar is Daland — in the libretto a sea captain and the father of the opera’s heroine, Senta, but here a clean-cut, middle-class man.
  — New York Times, 26 July 2021
• For many years, a retired sea captain and his wife lived there, followed in the Fifties by another family.
  — Joe Kloc, Harper's magazine, 10 June 2019
• This bizarre hybrid was bought by Moses Kimball, founder of the Boston Museum, from the family of a sea captain.
  — Philip Ball, Scientific American, 18 Apr. 2023
• There’s also a big picture of him, looking like a sea captain who moonlights as Santa.
  — Washington Post, 24 Feb. 2022
• And in the roadless hills south of Zdarsky’s airport stands the Lake Bonneville Guardian, a wooden totem pole painted with a glowering sea captain hugging a bear.
  — Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Aug. 2023
• Febos had not been a fearful child, rather one with calluses on her feet and a toughness that came with being a sea captain’s daughter.
  — Melissa Febos, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Apr. 2021
• In his career as an opera composer, Jake Heggie has written about nuns and mad sea captains, death row inmates and the angels among us.
  — Georgia Rowe, The Mercury News, 23 July 2019
• Senta, the dreamy daughter of a Norwegian sea captain, Daland, is obsessed with a portrait of the Dutchman and his legend.
  — Heidi Waleson, WSJ, 4 Mar. 2020
• Throughout history, most sea captains have tried to steer their vessels out of extreme weather, but the whole purpose of SD 1045 was to steer into it.
  — Porter Fox, New York Times, 9 May 2023
• Mummified, she’d then been sold to an American sea captain.
  — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 29 July 2019
• The trilogy centers on a 16-year-old girl who, when her sea captain father fails to show up for his annual visit at her boarding school, breaks out to search for him.
  — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 1 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 27 Oct 2024