NOUN
- a commissioned officer in the Army or Air Force or Marines ranking above a 2nd lieutenant and below a captain
How To Use first lieutenant In A Sentence
- Michael quickly rose through the ranks as orderly sergeant, first lieutenant and captain.
- This was Mark Rhoads, a first lieutenant in the Signal Corps who had been carefully selected for the assignment.
- Michael quickly rose through the ranks as orderly sergeant, first lieutenant and captain.
- Another of the officers at the drumhead court, the first lieutenant is also the second in command of the ship.
- When World War II broke out he was serving as a Lieutenant Commander in the Royal Navy minesweeper HMS Gleaner, but was posted soon after to the repair ship HMS Resource as First Lieutenant.
- After refitting, we went for a cruise to the East Indies, where we found the new admiral who had come out to replace Admiral Hope; and, in the spring of the following year, having served for eighteen months as a naval cadet, I was promoted to the rank of midshipman, the captain and first lieutenant, having convinced themselves of my competency by asking me how I would manage to get a six-pounder to the top of a perpendicular hill, my answer to which question was that I would head it up in a cask and "parbuckle" it up. Crown and Anchor Under the Pen'ant
- Clayley was elected first lieutenant, and in a week from that time the company was "mustered" into the service of the United States government, and armed and equipped as an independent corps of "Rifle The Rifle Rangers
- Finding it hopeless longer to look for succour or common humanity from the deceitful and infatuated court of Sicily, which persisted in prohibiting by sanguinary edicts the exportation of supplies, at his own risk, he sent his first lieutenant to the port of Girgenti, with orders to seize and bring with him to Malta the ships which were there lying laden with corn; of the numbers of which he had received accurate information. The Life of Horatio Lord Nelson
- First lieutenant to his enumerate a variety of drinking harm.
- Appointed first lieutenant in the Continental Navy in 1775, Jones received the command of the Ranger in 1777.