brevet

How To Use brevet In A Sentence

• He was brevetted as such in the 55th, " Lawford told Forrest, -and it will distinguish him from Bullen. Sharpe's Escape
• To get back to the surrender of 1 GORDONS - I can't go and dig out the story at the moment but it somehow involved the question of 'brevet' rank at the time and a trial for slander (?) after the war. Army Rumour Service
• When promoted to brevet major general, he was the youngest American to ever hold that rank.
• Receipt of ‘wings’ or the pilot's brevet, is a significant event in a pilot's career.
• In the course of the war, he had been brevetted up to brigadier-general. CHASING the WHITE DOG
• Anna Sten does not possess the thematic elements which, though skilfully concealed, can be traced in many of Mirjam Tuominen's stories, for example 'Irina' and 'Brevet' (The Letter) in the first collection, and later on 'Flickan som blev en växt' (The Girl who Turned Into a Plant), 'Chérie Klosters dagbok' (Chérie Kloster's Diary), or 'Resan' (The Journey). Archive 2010-05-01
• I predict a randonneuring parody by 2020, which should give him plenty of time to compile a bunch of words that rhyme with "brevet" and plan a "collabo" with Velo Orange. Parroting: Continual Conversations with the Road
• It might have lasted for ever if the Major had not been made what is called a brevet-colonel during the shuffling of troops that went on just before the South African War. The Good Soldier
• But now randonneurds on the longest of brevets may have shifter failure! Downgrade to Win: Increasing Results by Lowering Expectations
• About the same time, David F. Hounshell published a remarkable study of the events that Piore and Sabel, somewhat casually, brevetted first industrial divide. Economic Principals