commodore

How To Use commodore In A Sentence

• The instructor passes a question about Maydays onto the commodore, as she has more experience of them than him.
• Bob was a good cook, sang bass in the local choir, and was commodore of the Avon Sailing Club.
• Among those attending were several former commodores and captains of the ship.
• ‘I know sailors all over the country and I believe they can be mobilized as a constituency for change in ocean policy,’ says Rockefeller, himself a former yacht club commodore.
• Behind him stood the many admirals and commodores under his command, all of them dedicated to the task at hand.
• The salute at the parade was taken by the Naval Base Commander, Commodore Steve Graham.
• September, 1855, he had been promoted to the rank of captain, which, prior to the Civil War, was the highest grade in the United States Navy; the title commodore, then so frequently applied to the older officers of the service, being simply one of courtesy given to a captain who had commanded a squadron of several vessels, but who did not thereby cease to be borne as a captain upon the Navy Register. Admiral Farragut
• But the abbreviation for Commander is actualy Cdr, while the abbreviation for Commodore is Cmdre - Cmdr is a completely fabricated short form. Archive 2007-06-01
• We'll be back in half an hour," called the commodore, as they rowed away from the schooner. Captain Scraggs or, The Green-Pea Pirates
• ‘Could be better,’ the commodore commanding the 1st Task Force admitted.