How to use skipper in a sentence

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• Shaw's five victims included Australian skipper, David Gregory, out for a duck.2014, Philip Barker, Lord's Firsts: 200 Years of Making History at Lord’s Cricket Ground, page 98. From the entry out for a duck
• We have concurred that it was clearly Problema byssus, the byssus skipper: a lifer for me.2010, Robert Michael Pyle, Mariposa Road: The First Butterfly Big Year, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN. From the entry lifer
• The skipper woke in his starboard-side bunk to find the morning sun streaming through the port-hole.2010, Roger D. Taylor, Mingming & the Art of Minimal Ocean Sailing, →ISBN. From the entry starboard-side
• The most daring was that of Team Philips, the twin-masted cat skippered by Pete Goss.2009 October 27, Miles Kendall, Ultimate Sailing Adventures: 100 Extraordinary Experiences on the Water, Fernhurst Books Limited, →ISBN. From the entry twin-masted
• Skipper put a French fried potato into his mouth and nudged Gil.2003, Sylvia Snyder, The Sawdust Festival, iUniverse, Inc., →ISBN. From the entry french fried potato
• "I was telling the skipper here how you fetched the cape.1997, Janet Stevenson, Departure. From the entry bunkside
• And certainly any skipper who poormouths his own ship should be fired.1973, Proceedings of the United States Naval Institute, volume 99, United States Naval Institute, page 96. From the entry poormouth
• “T'ink o' your little childer and your wives!” bellowed the skipper of the Star of Africa.1956, John Seymour, One Man's Africa. From the entry yousselves
• The skipper had his eye on a bunch of butterballs feeding not far from the boat.1917, Hunter-Trader-Trapper, volume 34, page 37. From the entry butterball
• Bush, as a skipper who ignored the looming fiscal iceberg.2013 November 23, “How Barack Obama can get at least some of his credibility back”, in The Economist, archived from the original on 10 Jan…. From the entry iceberg
• The skipper, Matt Craughwell, said their boat had begun to take on water after being tossed, stern upwards, by huge waves.2012 January 31, Charlie Cooper, Simon Rice, “How six would-be record-breakers ended up in seriously deep water”, in Independent, UK…. From the entry take on water
• The skipper had been mercilessly sawn off.2010, Tony Lewis, Taking Fresh Guard. From the entry saw off
• Legendary San Diego long-range skipper and trophy-hunter Bill Poole came here a few years ago to catch a giant halibut.1997 July 4, Pete Thomas, “Flat-Out Huge”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC…. From the entry trophy-hunter
• "An odd bod at the moment, a crewless skipper."1991, Ronnie Waite, Death Or Decoration, page 75. From the entry odd bod
• “Who’d yer reckon’ll skipper, Loll?” “I dunno.1983, Paul Wheeler, chapter 2, in Bodyline: The Novel, London: Faber and Faber, →ISBN, page 29. From the entry s'
• Other common farmland butterflies to have suffered steep declines include the small tortoiseshell (64%), the wall brown (37%) and the large skipper (35%).2015 November 24, Patrick Barkham, “Pesticide may be reason butterfly numbers are falling in UK, says study”, in The Guardian, archived…. From the entry tortoiseshell
• Other common farmland butterflies to have suffered steep declines include the small tortoiseshell (64%), the wall brown (37%) and the large skipper' (35%).2015 November 24, Patrick Barkham, “Pesticide may be reason butterfly numbers are falling in UK, says study”, in The Guardian. From the entry large skipper
• Over the last few years he had made a haphazard living skippering yachts for day-trippers or as an odd-job man in the quiet winter months.2008 May 31, Elizabeth Day, Graham Keeley, “My father, RD Laing: 'he solved other people's problems - but not his own'”, in The Observer…. From the entry odd-job man
• That has got to be a cover-up for the long "Ultra Streng Geheim" fact that German sub skippers took their dachshunde to sea with them.2005 April 5, Eugene Griessel, “Bloody silly U-boat question ....”, in sci.military.naval (Usenet), archived from the original on 06 Oct…. From the entry dachshunde
• Back in the spoilsome comforts of Kodiak and about to fly south again, I trade friendly barbs with my skipper over the seven-day St.1987, National Fisherman, volume 68. From the entry spoilsome
• Whether or not this guidance was useful we cannot judge, but in any event no short cuts for skippers are possible in Mr.1927 July 30, The Spectator, volume 139, London: F. C. Westley, →OCLC, page 193. From the entry utopographer
• Meantime the old salt ("ex-coasting skipper" was writ large all over his person) had hobbled up alongside in his bumpy, shiny boots.1904–1906, Joseph Conrad, “The Faithful River”, in The Mirror of the Sea, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers…. From the entry writ large
• South Africa's leading runscorer Jacques Kallis, who captained the side for one Test against Australia in Johannesburg three years ago, will be skipper in Cape Town.2009 March 13, AAP, “Aussies relax amid Proteas' captain chaos”, in Herald Sun. From the entry runscorer
• These elegant instrument pods will bring all the instruments within eye range of the most nearsighted skipper, keep his bulkhead intact and eliminate all those messy wires spaghettiing around.1977 November, Patty Slingluff, “Christmas Presents!”, in Murray Davis, editor, Cruising World, volume 3, number 11, Newport, R.I.…. From the entry spaghetti
• Today the ubiquitous cabin cruiser seems to many a Sunday skipper like nothing more than a watertight version of the car he left parked at the marina.1963 July 5, “Perils of the Surface”, in Time. From the entry cabin cruiser
• Peter Edwards was bragging all around the little port about his boy, shanghaied off to sea on his first voyage and coming home skipper of a bung-full spouter.1930, Captain Dingle, “In Conclusion” (chapter 34), in Seaworthy, Cambridge, Mass.: The Riverside Press, page 270. From the entry shanghai
• Late one afternoon the skipper said he thought that we should have a breeze before nightfall, and the helmsman—an elderly Finnishman—ventured to feel sure that we should.1902 April, J. E. Patterson, “Anecdotes of Sea Superstitions”, in George Newnes, editor, The Strand Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly…. From the entry Finnishman
• Researchers found that 15 of 17 species which commonly live on farmland – including the small tortoiseshell, small skipper and wall butterfly – show declines associated with increasing neonic use.2015 November 24, Patrick Barkham, “Pesticide may be reason butterfly numbers are falling in UK, says study”, in The Guardian. From the entry wall
• She was once a beautiful vessel and would have enhanced any waterfront of the period – 'Even now' the skipper had mused, looking at her with just a little affection.2011, Nick Ardley, The Jottings of a Thames Estuary Ditch-Crawler. From the entry narrow-gutted
• That you can handle a small runabout is no indication you can skipper a twin-screw yacht; that you can puddle-jump on bay is no indication you can run an inlet.1966, MotorBoating - Sep 1966, page 16. From the entry puddle-jump

Meaning of skipper

1. noun The master of a ship.
2. noun A coach, director, or other leader.
3. noun The captain of a sports team such as football, cricket, rugby or curling.

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How do you use skipper in a sentence?

Skipper is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Tourist subs, which could once be skippered by anyone with a U.S.”

What is a short sentence with skipper?

“The skipper had been mercilessly sawn off.”

What does skipper mean?

Skipper means the master of a ship.