How to Use midshipman in a Sentence

midshipman

noun

• Josh Kaplowitz, a 2nd class midshipman, found a quiet place near the State House to sit and talk to his mother.
  — Phillip Jackson, baltimoresun.com, 17 Sep. 2020
• Bird is the second midshipman with the Naval Academy to have died in less than two months.
  — Melissa Chan, NBC News, 18 July 2022
• From the grassy spot, the grunts and shouts of dozens of exercising midshipmen on Forrest Sherman Field float up to the grave site.
  — Laurie Kellman, Fox News, 27 Aug. 2018
• Philip went on to graduate (in 1939) from the Naval College at the top of his class and to win a coveted prize as the best all-round midshipman.
  — Lily Rothman, Time, 9 Apr. 2021
• Bonner, a slotback, and Chris High, a fullback, will return to help lead the Midshipmen’s ground game.
  — Shannon Green, OrlandoSentinel.com, 27 June 2017
• It’s a top leadership position that enables a midshipman to lead peers in achieving the goals of the brigade.
  — NBC News, 3 Dec. 2020
• Cameras caught cadets and midshipmen making the gesture -- an upside-down OK sign -- at least five times during the pre-game show.
  — cleveland, 17 Dec. 2019
• During the past 14 years, the Midshipmen have never finished lower than No.
  — Shannon Green, OrlandoSentinel.com, 27 June 2017
• Three decades ago, a tall, slender midshipman landed in South Texas and, using his sturdy back and naval know-how, set forth on building a bubble.
  — Mike Finger, San Antonio Express-News, 16 June 2018
• In their last hours as midshipmen, members of the graduating class gathered on a plaza overlooking the turf field, milling around a bronze statue of the Navy mascot, Bill the Goat.
  — Nick Anderson, Washington Post, 25 May 2018
• The task force was to take Naval Academy midshipmen on an annual training cruise.
  — sandiegouniontribune.com, 27 May 2018
• Cheap became close to a young midshipman on the Centurion named John Campbell, who had been pressed while serving on a merchant ship.
  — David Grann, The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2023
• The Academy educates midshipmen for service in the officer corps of the Navy and Marine Corps.
  — Baltimore Sun, 12 May 2023
• Second-year midshipman Kay Moore entered the Navy after high school as an enlisted sailor.
  — Taylor Deville, baltimoresun.com, 4 Aug. 2021
• Pence spoke on a warm and sunny morning to the 1,053 graduating midshipmen sitting on the field before him in white folding chairs in their dress uniforms.
  — John Fritze, baltimoresun.com, 26 May 2017
• According to court testimony, Zamora started telling other midshipmen that her boyfriend had killed a girl in Texas to prove his love for her.
  — Michael Graczyk, The Seattle Times, 24 July 2018
• 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
• His brothers, Dylan and Jake, are both Naval Academy midshipmen.
  — Houston Chronicle, 9 Feb. 2020
• Walking the Naval Academy’s tidy brick paths, the group came upon a midshipman with a cast, slowly navigating his way across campus on crutches.
  — Justin Wm. Moyer, Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2019
• 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
• Hundreds of midshipmen marched onto a stage built to resemble an aircraft carrier, past a replica fighter plane and a weather buoy with a fake seagull perched on top.
  — Alex Prewitt, SI.com, 4 Mar. 2018
• There were 500 midshipmen involved in pregame festivities as combat jet flew over as the national anthems played.
  — A.j. Perez, USA TODAY, 3 Mar. 2018
• Not since midshipman David Robinson has a service academy produced as prodigious a hoops talent as the 5-foot-7-inch Minato.
  — John Walters, Newsweek, 27 Jan. 2016
• His appearance has thrilled some midshipmen and dismayed others.
  — Washington Post Staff, Washington Post, 25 May 2018
• Carter said the difference between Craine's testimony and that of a former midshipman who reported an attack several years ago and left the school showed the progress the Naval Academy had made.
  — Ian Duncan, baltimoresun.com, 2 May 2017
• Bancroft Hall is the massive dormitory complex where all 4,500 midshipmen at the Naval Academy live.
  — Ralph Ellis and Melissa Alonso, CNN, 22 Feb. 2020
• Their commencement marks the end of four years of academic and military training at the elite school, and the moment when midshipmen receive their degrees and commissions as officers.
  — John Fritze, baltimoresun.com, 26 May 2017
• Tourists can watch the midshipmen’s noon mealtime formation in Tecumseh Court in front of landmark dormitory Bancroft Hall.
  — Jennifer Chappell Smith, Southern Living, 16 Aug. 2017
• In the summer, incoming freshmen, or plebes, begin a rigorous training camp (known as Plebe Summer) that turns civilians into midshipmen.
  — Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 25 July 2023
• Radio Liberty, a U.S. government network based outside Russia, reached the widow of one midshipman who confirmed his death and said that 27 crew members remained missing.
  — New York Times, 17 Apr. 2022

Last Updated: 21 Sep 2024