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"Colonel" in a Sentence (15 examples)
He was raised to the rank of colonel two years ago.
He advanced to colonel.
He holds the rank of colonel.
He was promoted to colonel two years ago.
The Colonel said the situation is under control.
Everybody feared the lieutenant colonel.
I got along with the lieutenant colonel.
"He did right," the colonel nodded.
I am a colonel.
Colonel Collins was the first woman to be in charge of a Space Shuttle mission.
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The colonel and his sponsor made a queer contrast: Greystone long and stringy, with a face that seemed as if a cold wind was eternally playing on it. […] But there was not a more lascivious reprobate and gourmand in all London than this same Greystone.
General Charles-Maximilian Fiennes was made colonel of the army.
"Colonel" was often used as an honorific, indicating no actual military service: between 1792 and 1916, according to Ron Bryant, a curator at the Kentucky Historical Society, 400 of the 650 colonels commissioned were honorary.
Then did Sir Knight abandon dwelling, And out he rode Colonelling.
Consequently the necessity for the reorganization of the Guard, during the ten months’ absence of yourself and Colonels Smith and Banks, could not have been averted under our present Military Code.
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