How to Use helmsman in a Sentence

helmsman

noun

• Takei felt blessed to land the role of the master helmsman.
  — Karen Heller, Washington Post, 16 July 2019
• Max works as the helmsman and hauler, while Virginia measures the lobsters and throws back the ones too small to keep.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 20 Aug. 2021
• The helmsman is a sailor who controls the direction of the ship based on orders from the conning officer.
  — Emanuella Grinberg, CNN, 18 June 2017
• In response, the captain put a second sailor in charge of shifting speed control while keeping the steering with the helmsman.
  — Dan Lamothe, Washington Post, 1 Nov. 2017
• Burling had the higher profile, becoming the youngest helmsman in the Cup’s 167-year history to win it.
  — Christopher Clarey, New York Times, 17 May 2018
• As the chief helmsman of a private preparatory school, Mr. Sturtevant was an anomaly.
  — Washington Post, 29 Oct. 2019
• Ainslie, a reserve helmsman for Oracle at the start of the race, was brought on board as a tactician with Team New Zealand out to a dominant start.
  — Christopher Clarey, New York Times, 25 May 2017
• As the helmsman struggled to center the ship, the two pilots also began to argue between themselves, the person said.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 18 July 2021
• The helmsman reported a loss of steering, prompting the commanding officer to order the ship’s speed from 10 knots to five knots.
  — Dan Lamothe, Washington Post, 1 Nov. 2017
• Gordon, who served as a helmsman and trimmer on Warrior, was among four crew members with Annapolis ties.
  — baltimoresun.com, 5 June 2017
• The country had only 20 years earlier ended a brutal war with Japan, but the ship's helmsman was Japanese (Sulu).
  — John Blake, CNN, 1 May 2022
• The move, intended to make operating the ship more manageable, ended up taking away the helmsman’s ability to steer.
  — Eric Schmitt, Thomas Gibbons-Neff and Helene Cooper, New York Times, 1 Nov. 2017
• Peter Burling, the winning helmsman of the last two America’s Cups, and his team had a number of impressive starts and match-racing maneuvers during two days of racing.
  — Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 1 Aug. 2022
• Although born in Australia, the helmsman also holds U.S. citizenship.
  — Diane Bell Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 June 2021
• The great helmsman recounted the youthful dissenters’ arrest and repeated the axe phraseology.
  — David B. Moore, Quartz Africa, 7 Sep. 2019
• It was ingrained in the language: seaman, helmsman, fisherman, longshoreman, yachtsman.
  — Carl Nolte, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 Jan. 2018
• One of the pilots gave a series of unusually aggressive commands, shouting to the ship’s Indian helmsman to steer hard right, then hard left, according to a person familiar with audio recordings from the ship’s voyage data recorder.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 18 July 2021
• Russian women, for example, cannot be ship’s helmsmen (in order, apparently, to protect their reproductive health).
  — The Economist, 5 May 2018
• Perhaps most important, the team successfully navigated the contentious transition from the popular veteran helmsman Dean Barker to the 26-year-old Peter Burling.
  — Christopher Clarey, New York Times, 26 June 2017
• The National Transportation Safety Board panel found that a rigid bridge hierarchy contributed to the disaster because officers and helmsmen were reluctant to contest his decision.
  — Author: Ian Simpson, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Dec. 2017

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