Examples of midshipman in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Moran served aboard the Ohio with a young midshipman named Chester Nimitz, who later became Commander in Chief of the U.S. Pacific Fleet and Commander in Chief of Pacific Ocean Areas during World War II. — San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 May 2022 In addition, the wife of an older midshipman confirmed his death to Radio Liberty, a U.S. government network based outside Russia. — New York Times, 21 Apr. 2022 Westminster resident Tim Thomas organized the first Army-Navy football run in 1981 as a midshipman. — Madison Bateman, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 9 Dec. 2021 Second-year midshipman Kay Moore entered the Navy after high school as an enlisted sailor. — Taylor Deville, baltimoresun.com, 4 Aug. 2021 Second Lieutenant Hanna Born, just three years old at the time of the attacks, graduated from the Air Force Academy in 2019; her younger sister Heather is a midshipman in the Naval Academy's class of 2023. — Eleanor Watson, CBS News, 7 Sep. 2021 When his roommate at the Naval Academy said jokingly last year that Andrew Atwill was a homosexual, the midshipman told him to cut it out. — Taylor Deville, baltimoresun.com, 4 Aug. 2021 Authorities in Maryland have charged a 29-year-old Annapolis man in the killing of a U.S. Naval Academy midshipman’s mother. — NBC News, 15 July 2021 The Naval Academy has identified the midshipman as Leonard Cummings III. — Washington Post, 14 July 2021 See More

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