midshipman

How To Use midshipman In A Sentence

• As an undergraduate I had a number of little jobs, as a waiter and barman, and I enrolled as a midshipman in the Royal Naval Reserve at weekends and holidays.
• His interviews became notorious, often pitting a four-star admiral against a midshipman or junior officer in his twenties.
• He joined the navy as a midshipman when he was 16, and two years later sailed with Captain Bligh on the expedition to carry breadfruit plants from Tahiti to the West Indies.
• What do you mean?" asked the midshipman right before his head dropped heavily to the table, his last breath pressing windily out of his lungs. Archive 2005-05-15
• There she met a Naval Academy midshipman from Texas.
• Two German ironclad warships were rumored to be skulking nearby, and Deryn was meant to be watching for signals from Midshipman Newkirk, who was dangling from a Huxley ascender two thousand feet above them. Behemoth
• Davis left his studies at Harvard to join the navy as a midshipman in 1817.
• Exacerbating the situation is the fact that cadets and midshipman who are children of career military parents are present in record numbers at the service academies.
• We also read an article about how George Washington almost became a midshipman in England's Royal Navy in his early years (his mother wouldn't let him).
• After refitting, we went for a cruise to the East Indies, where we found the new admiral who had come out to replace Admiral Hope; and, in the spring of the following year, having served for eighteen months as a naval cadet, I was promoted to the rank of midshipman, the captain and first lieutenant, having convinced themselves of my competency by asking me how I would manage to get a six-pounder to the top of a perpendicular hill, my answer to which question was that I would head it up in a cask and "parbuckle" it up. Crown and Anchor Under the Pen'ant