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How to use coxswain in a sentence

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Yet for all the masterful handling of the ship by the coxswain it became quite noticeable that we gave a wide berth to the other ship.
Egypt's coxswain, who also coxes his country's eight, propelled his boat into the lead.
The coxswain sped his boat further on, arrows and bullets whizzing past their heads.
Unlike the typical yacht, cabin cruiser, rowboat, kayak or canoe, shells have no cleats for attaching a rope, said one coxswain.
As coxswain, I would steer, control the pace, and act as the eyes of the oarsmen, who were facing backward.
The ship's only reported mishap came when a coxswain was hit in the neck by a bullet ricocheting off a modern pentathlete's target.
When the tender is safely alongside the ship, climb aboard when the coxswain tells you to.
To the drum of a coxswain, international member paddlers of the Shanghai Shang Long Dragon Boat Team press forward on Dianshan Lake.
He climbed into the cockboat and sat silently waiting, making the coxswain fiddle around nervously.
Under the encouragement of their coxswain, Oliver Blach, they moved up to first, one seat at a time.
He was a Navy assault coxswain aboard the USS Talladega during the Vietnam War.
The coxswain gets a situation report from the coastguard and picks his crew.
Former lifeboat coxswain Roland Stork was awarded the MBE for his services to the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.
The boat's coxswain will need to know where you are long before you surface.
She eventually rose to coxswain in the Auxiliary and taught their coastal navigation courses.
The senior coxswain was thrilled with the honour that commends his service to the Hampshire community.
The coxswain is fitted snugly into the bow end of the boat steering and motivating the crew.
One look at the face of the Coast Guard coxswain on the 47's flying bridge gave me the answer.
The sailors and coxswain running the whaleboat pushed off again to help the others towing away the wreckage.
Men with short back and sides dressed in gleaming white singlets and shorts set off downriver while a little coxswain in a cap urges them on.
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The coxswain of the life-boat can swear to it that the drawers were all empty.
One of them was the coxswain, another the harpooner, while the others sat at the oars.
The tippler knew the reason why only too well, and he also knew that it was useless as well as dangerous to disobey the coxswain.
The eight strained forward, and the coxswain began to beat time.
I may at this point give a word of advice to a coxswain in a bumping Race.
Cloete is dragged into the life-boat and the coxswain tumbles in.
It consisted of ten men, the coxswain, the midshipmen, and Harry.
Six oarsmen took their seats, and the coxswain went to the tiller.The sailors rowed on, and the coxswain made for the floating barrel.
I passed heavily under the curtain which the Malay coxswain of the harbour launch raised for me.
So away he came to me with this account, a little after the message had been brought to me from the coxswain.
The coxswain said some words in his outlandish tongue, doubtless warning the men to keep on their guard.
The little coxswain of the Atalanta was the last to step on board.
The excitement of these last manoeuvres had somewhat interfered with the watch I had kept hitherto, sharply enough, upon the coxswain.
The gig was already lowered, and in it were four oarsmen and a coxswain.
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