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colonel

[ US /ˈkɝnəɫ/ ]
[ UK /kˈɜːnə‍l/ ]
NOUN
  1. a commissioned military officer in the United States Army or Air Force or Marines who ranks above a lieutenant colonel and below a brigadier general

How To Use colonel In A Sentence

  • Ronald Martin retired from the United States Air Force Reserve as a Lt. Colonel. Mastin, Ronald L.
  • Jacinto killed one man while defending his honor and now plans to take the life of the Colonel.
  • But, Colonel Hackworth, does that then re-change your former predictions? CNN Transcript Mar 29, 2003
  • Instead, he underplays and it's a joy to watch him assume just the right mask of deferential blandness to manage his Colonel.
  • How should a lieutenant colonel in the Marines address a captain in the navy? Times, Sunday Times
  • I won't be surprised if the striking ‘colonels’ have been generously compensated for their brazen defiance of military norms.
  • The Colonel bowed his head and whispered a prayer of thanksgiving.
  • Oswald felt heartfeltly sorry to wound the good Colonel's feelings, but he had to remark that he had only done his duty, and he was sure no British scout would take five bob for doing that. The Wouldbegoods
  • Colonel Kenton now saw the unhandsomeness of his leaving his wife at all, and he beheld in its true light his shabbiness in not going back to tell her he had found his old friend and was to bring him to dinner. A Fearful Responsibility and Other Stories
  • Third, James Stuart, major-general, and colonel of the thirl j-- first regiment of foot, married Lady Margaret Hume, daughter of Hugh,. Collins's peerage of England; genealogical, biographical, and historical
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