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brigadier

[ US /ˌbɹɪɡəˈdɪɹ/ ]
[ UK /bɹˌɪɡɐdˈi‍ə/ ]
NOUN
  1. a general officer ranking below a major general

How To Use brigadier In A Sentence

  • Not long after he was seconded to the Royal Air Force as a liaison officer, he claimed he had annoyed the Brigadier.
  • She had ambition; she didn't intend to end her career as a brigadier in Hollands Midden. THE LAST TEMPTATION
  • The brigadier was a thick-set, soldierly looking man, fit as a fiddle in spite of the grey hairs which mingled with his brown moustache, and his eyes lit up as he saw his two sons still safe and well. With Haig on the Somme
  • Snor Vermeulen and Lionel Snyman of Vlakplaas, Nieuwoudt and a third man who "appeared to be a senior officer" and who Nieuwoudt later identified as divisional commander Brigadier Fanie Gilbert. ANC Daily News Briefing
  • The Defense Department announced on Friday that the President has formally nominated three colonels for promotion to Brigadier General.
  • The brigadier said it was a good opportunity for the kids to have a break from their normal everyday environment.
  • He rendered valuable service to his country, and had he lived, would probably have been recommended by me before this time for a brigadier generalcy.
  • The brigadier is a capital fellow; and though he does keep us hard at work, at any rate he works hard himself, and does not send us galloping about with all sorts of trivial messages that might as well be unsent. With Moore at Corunna
  • He shall come, sidesmen accostant, by aryan jubilarian and on brigadier-general Nolan or and buccaneer-admiral Browne, with — who can doubt it? — his golden beagles and his white elkox terriers for a hunting on our littlego illcome faxes. Finnegans Wake
  • Well, and afterwards, up to her death, indeed, he lived with her, and they do say she led him a pretty dance — the brigadier, that is; sent him on foot from Moscow into the country — by God, she did — to get her rents in, I suppose. A Desperate Character
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