How to Use sea captain in a Sentence

sea captain

noun
  • There’s also the sea captain guy.
    — Jordan Hoffman, Entertainment Weekly, 8 June 2026
  • The uniformed figure of an old sea captain snapped to salute.
    — New York Times, 12 May 2022
  • There was a queen dressed as a sea captain being half-eaten by a shark.
    — Jenna Wortham, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2018
  • The sea captains, sailors, explorers, naval heroes, even the pirates were all men.
    — Carl Nolte, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 Jan. 2018
  • 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, 20 Oct. 2023
  • 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
  • The rooms are a modern take on a sea captain’s quarters, with fireplaces and Persian rugs.
    — Jody Rosen, Smithsonian, 14 June 2018
  • The salty sea captain beard and the piercing stare, perfect for magazine covers, did not hurt.
    — Matthew Herper, STAT, 30 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • There’s also a big picture of him, looking like a sea captain who moonlights as Santa.
    — Washington Post, 24 Feb. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Linn, a sea captain, came to Birmingham in 1871 and founded the city’s first bank.
    — al, 1 June 2020
  • That mindset has shaped my journey from sea captain to serial entrepreneur.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • The comics follow the title character, a swashbuckling sea captain whose adventures take him around the world.
    — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 16 Oct. 2024
  • Kennedy was a sea captain who plied the waters along Mexico’s east coast in the early 1800s.
    — Jonathan M. Pitts, Baltimore Sun, 2 Aug. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • His grandfather was a sea captain who filled Buffett’s imagination with stories of his ocean journeys around the world.
    — Nick Murray, Rolling Stone, 2 Sep. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The Bluff stars Chopra Jonas as a former pirate captain who hung up her sword for a tranquil life until her sea captain is kidnapped by a former nemesis.
    — Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 11 Mar. 2026
  • Located in an old sea captain’s house, this upscale consignment shop is set up like a boutique, with six rooms of clothing, shoes, and accessories in sizes from 0 to 24.
    — Pamela Wright, BostonGlobe.com, 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
  • 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

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