coxswain

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Recent Examples of coxswain The acting is solid, particularly by Hadley Robinson as Joe’s love interest, Joyce, and Luke Slattery as Bobby Moch, who as the team’s coxswain doesn’t lift an oar but is in charge of navigation and steering. Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post, 18 Dec. 2023 With the stature of a coxswain at five foot two, Temple is an unlikely counterweight to two armed thugs. Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 13 Dec. 2023 The smoke was so thick that the coxswain could not see the bow of the ship. Riley Mellen, New York Times, 15 Aug. 2023 Hauser had been selected by a coxswain to help get other sailors to a ship. John Kelly, Washington Post, 24 July 2023 See All Example Sentences for coxswain
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Noun
  • The Indonesian crewmen earned about $330 per month but did not know how much the North Koreans made.
    Choe Sang-Hun, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2025
  • Only two of the crewman were pulled into the other lifeboat that held Minch and his family, and the vessel bobbed in the darkness amid rough weather for 10 hours, experts said.
    Lauren Liebhaber, Kansas City Star, 11 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Robert Phillips Deckhand, Below Deck Season 8 This fill-in deckhand made his mark by slagging off Izzy Wouters after she was promoted to lead deckhand over him.
    Brian Moylan, Vulture, 31 Dec. 2024
  • While the crew had been given permission to have a few drinks with guests on the last night of charter, deckhand Culver Bradbury was seemingly overserved.
    Gina Ragusa, EW.com, 3 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Simpson as clone Walton gamely boasts a long, scraggly wig and barely-there sarong until he’s rescued by his shipmates.
    Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 22 Apr. 2025
  • The North Koreans’ former shipmates remembered them showing videos of military parades and their leader, Mr. Kim, giving speeches.
    Choe Sang-Hun, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • From November 2023 until this January, the Houthis targeted more than 100 merchant vessels with missiles and drones, sinking two of them and killing four sailors.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 19 Apr. 2025
  • But those launches are usually accompanied by airspace and maritime warning notices to ensure pilots and sailors steer clear of the test.
    Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 18 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Three of the Indonesian seamen also spoke separately to The New York Times.
    Choe Sang-Hun, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2025
  • Captains and seamen alike reaped the benefits of having these scientists on board with them.
    Will McGough, Forbes.com, 26 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Look at this first-quarter possession: Nembhard is the Pacers’ best on-ball defender and an elite screen navigator.
    Eric Nehm, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2025
  • Opposing big men aren’t skilled screen navigators because they just aren’t used to that being required of them.
    Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 18 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Titanic analyst Parks Stephenson, metallurgist Jennifer Hooper, and master mariner Captain Chris Hearn find evidence exonerating First Officer William Murdoch, long accused of abandoning his post.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 10 Apr. 2025
  • Hazardous seas also prompted NWS meteorologists to issue a small craft advisory warning inexperienced mariners, especially those in small vessels, against venturing out into the ocean.
    Paul Du Quenoy, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Mar. 2025

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“Coxswain.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coxswain. Accessed 1 May. 2025.

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