Sentence examples for colonel from inspiring English sources
The word "colonel" is correct and may be used in written English
It is a military rank and may be used both as a noun, referring to a person (such as "The colonel inspected the troops") and as an adjective, describing something of or related to the rank (such as "He was wearing his colonel's hat").
noun
A commissioned officer in the army, air force, or marine corps. In U.S. military, it ranks above a lieutenant colonel and below a brigadier general.
The colonel said he was defecting in protests at "Assad's gangsters bombing Syrian cities".
This supervisor, Major Cliff McWhite, was later promoted to lieutenant colonel by the city's police commissioner, Anthony Batts, but subsequently stepped down and was charged with theft in 2014.
"I've never seen anyone stoop to those levels," Stuart Couch, a former Marine lieutenant colonel and military commissions prosecutor, said of Zuley's interrogation of Slahi.
Should McDonalds' golden arches or the pert goatee and red apron of KFC's Colonel Sanders become as ubiquitous in Gaza and the West Bank as they are in so much of the world, the impact could be disastrous for family-run street stalls and cafes offering local fast food: falafel, hummus and shawarma.
Captain Willard Martin Sheenn) hitches a lift on a Navy patrol boat up the Mekong river to Cambodia on a mission to terminate "with extreme prejudice" a certain Colonel Kurtz (Marlon Brando) who is reported to have gone native in rather a nasty way.
During his career, Dzhugashvili served as a colonel in the Soviet and Russian air force, briefly toyed with politics, and in 1999 stood for Russia's state duma as a representative of a group of communist parties.
Here's a roundup of the latest developments: SYRIA Rebel forces are running out of food and can nothing for civilians fleeing the violence, a colonel from the Free Syrian Army told the Guardian.
"This is a disturbing accusation of sexual assault," lieutenant-colonel Francis Bolduc said in a statement.
He fought in north-west Europe with the Honourable Artillery Company, rose to lieutenant-colonel and was awarded the military MBE and mentioned in dispatches.
She is equally good as the teenager with the crush on Cary Grant in The Bachelor and the Bobby Soxer (aka Bachelor Knight, 1947) and worked for Ford again in Fort Apache (1948) as martinet lieutenant-colonel Henry Fonda's daughter, Philadelphia Thursday, probably the best film she made.
A lieutenant-colonel, Yacouba Isaac Zida, the second-in-command at the presidential guard, challenged him and won the backing of other senior officers.
