Captain in example sentence

"Well, captain, what the ancients hesitated to undertake, Mr. de Lesseps is now finishing up; his joining of these two seas will shorten the route from Cadiz to the East Indies by 9,000 kilometers, and he'll soon change Africa into an immense island."

More example sentences with word captain

The captain of a New Zealand vessel who was just down there is reporting a significant decline in the number of the Ross Sea killer whales, who are directly dependent on the Antarctic toothfish as their main source of food.

I became the captain of the team, and that was great.

When I'm not fighting poverty, I'm fighting fires as the assistant captain of a volunteer fire company.

But still it was a real footrace against the other volunteers to get to the captain in charge to find out what our assignments would be.

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