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"Chief" in a Sentence (21 examples)
You don't have proper dignity as chief of the section.
The fact that educated Americans in general no longer share understandable background knowledge is a chief cause of their inability to communicate effectively.
In 776 B.C., the first Olympic Games were held at the foot of Mount Olympus to honor the Greeks' chief god, Zeus.
The section chief made me work like a slave.
The chief crop of our country is rice.
The problem tortured the chief.
The chief clerk is not a hardworking man, but gets ahead rapidly because he knows how to curry favor with his superiors.
What is the chief aim of this society?
Our section chief always makes a face at me when I ask him for something.
What were the chief events of 1990?
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In virtue of this privilege, in testimony of my affectionate respect for a revered chief, in conformity with what I believe to be the wish of all the Members of the scientific department, over which I have the honour to preside, and to perpetuate the memory of that illustrious master of accurate geographical research, I have determined to name this noble peak of the Himalayas ‘Mont Everest.’
My father, Gadla Henry Mphakanyiswa, was a chief by both blood and custom.
All firefighters report to the fire chief.
Bob is our troubleshooter in chief.
When the Chief is Charged with any figure, in blazon it is said to be "On a Chief".
The shield was silver, charged with a red cross voided (that is, with the centre cut out and only the edges left), between in chief (that is, above the horizontal limb of the cross) two black dragon's wings, and in base two red daggers, and in the centre of the cross a black winged helmet; on a red chief (a broad band across the top of the shield), a silver pale (a broad vertical band), and thereon eight black arrows crossed X-wise, four and four, and encircled with a black band, between on the dexter three bendlets (narrow bands slanting from dexter chief to sinister base) enhanced (that is, raised above the centre), and on the sinister a fleur-de-lis, all of gold.
“How old are you, chief?” the elevator guy said.
Negligence was the chief cause of the disaster.
[…] But when we find that they [volcanoes] are but few in Number, and the chiefeſt of thoſe too near the torrid Zone, and from their Tops to iſſue forth, now clear Fire, then thick, black Smoke, and ſometimes little or nothing at all; we muſt conclude, that they are only particular Fires, probably of the Sun’s kindling at firſt, and ſince continued by the caſual and incidental Applications of that Pabulum, which thoſe Part of the Earth adminiſter to them.
Researchers found that one of the chief effects of drinking was to reduce people's ability to monitor their own behavior.
'You’re doing it because she was your friend, not because she was a parishioner, and certainly not because of the Declaratory Articles,' Macmurray said, pushing himself forward on his seat. 'Everybody knows how chief you and she were. It was an unfitting relationship for a minister while she was alive, and it is equally unfitting for you to do her a favour like this now she's dead.'
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