cap'n
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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The cap’n said, “Evening, gennel-men, how y’all doing?”
From "The Journey of Little Charlie" by Christopher Paul Curtis
The cap’n didn’t have to worry none ’bout me wanting to stay in the city; this place had already died and was jus’ a rotting corpse.
From "The Journey of Little Charlie" by Christopher Paul Curtis
The last straw that busted the wagon’s axle was when something the cap’n had said in the moonlight in the river finally made itself clear to me.
From "The Journey of Little Charlie" by Christopher Paul Curtis
The cap’n said, “That ain’t gonna take no three days to do.”
From "The Journey of Little Charlie" by Christopher Paul Curtis
He started going at the Spanish moss moustache and the cap’n grabbed his arm.
From "The Journey of Little Charlie" by Christopher Paul Curtis
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