10 sentences with 'lieutenant'
Example sentences and phrases with the word lieutenant and other words derived from it.
• « The lieutenant colonel made no public statement about Casey's involvement in the Iran-Contra affair while Casey was still alive. »
• « The lieutenant colonel cashed some traveller's cheques at the grocery shop, at the dry cleaners, and for other personal expenses. »
• « -I know exactly how your baby feels," a lieutenant tried to comfort me. I cried on my first day in the army too. »
• « On 25 February 1778, José de San Martín was born in Yapeyú, a town in Corrientes, where his father, Captain Juan de San Martín, held the post of lieutenant governor. »
• « As an officer he fought in Africa and Europe, obtained the rank of lieutenant colonel and in 1811 decided to return to his homeland to offer his services to the cause of independence. »
• « The lieutenant colonel in charge of the prison informed us that 15 prisoners were serving sentences there for treason, for having attempted to escape from the country, although not a single one of them was in the cells that day. »
• « Later, the lieutenant colonel informed us that, coincidentally, six of the most articulate and politically active men we had asked to see were hospitalised due to a sudden flu epidemic, and that we would not be able to talk to them. »
• « Rakhmanin waved his index finger under the lieutenant colonel's nose, and warned him that he had better not punish the prisoners for what they had said. »
• « South Carolina's 1778 constitution also sought to protect the interests of the wealthy. Governors and lieutenant governors of the state were required to have "a settled plantation or free property in their own right of at least ten thousand pounds sterling in value, free from debt". This provision limited the state's high offices to its wealthiest inhabitants. Similarly, South Carolina state senators were required to own estates valued at £2,000. »