"competent" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- After docking seventeen of the thirty-six man crew deserted, and only six of the remaining men were competent seamen.
- Both of them were competent seamen and had clearly sailed as seamen many times before.
- Lewrie becomes an imaginative and aggressive officer, a capable leader, and a competent seaman... He is no longer dominated by his womanizing.
- Cousteau, barely in his twenties, was a happy-go-lucky youngster, always eager and willing and a more than competent seaman.
- From an early age he proved himself a competent seaman and ship driver.
- Morbrith was no more; every competent, rough-mannered seaman who had remained to defend the High Earl was now lost to the living.
- Those officers who had sailed with him on numerous voyages found him difficult to approach, but they all considered him a competent seaman.
- The novel paints a colourful picture of the Duke and acknowledges his reputation as a competent seaman and commander.
- He was such a competent seaman, and a friend of mine, too--we both lived aboard at Shoemaker Bay, though he was gone a lot.
- The captain, while a competent seaman, was a brute in his treatment of his men.
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