Lieutenant is an English word with synonyms like supporter or help. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Lieutenant in a sentence
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Lieutenant meaning
- The lowest junior commissioned officer rank(s) in many military forces, often Army and Marines.
- In the US Army, Air Force and Marines, holding the rank above second lieutenant and below captain. Both ranks may be referred to as "lieutenant" or as the complete forms of the ranks.
Synonyms of Lieutenant
Lieutenant vertaling naar Nederlands
Using Lieutenant
- The main meaning on this page is: The lowest junior commissioned officer rank(s) in many military forces, often Army and Marines. | In the US Army, Air Force and Marines, holding the rank above second lieutenant and below captain. Both ranks may be referred to as "lieutenant" or as the complete forms of the ranks. | The lowest junior commissioned officer rank(s) in many military forces, often Army and Marines.
- Useful related words include: commissioned military officer, supporter, help, helper.
- Possible Dutch translations are: luitenant.
- In the example corpus, lieutenant often appears in combinations such as: lieutenant governor, lieutenant colonel, lieutenant general.
Example sentences (20)
Accordingly, 61 Officers from Captain to Major rank, 19 from Major to Lieutenant Colonel rank, 14 from Lieutenant Colonel to Colonel rank, and 4 from Lieutenant Colonel to brevet Colonel rank have been promoted.
In 1914, he was promoted to the ranks of lieutenant in the army and sub-lieutenant in the navy, then to captain and lieutenant in 1916.
Congratulations Captain Casey Kendall, Lieutenant Spencer Berry, and Lieutenant Albert Reyes on your promotions at the Green River Fire Department.
Lewis Hogg from Elgin and District Pipe Band pipes Lord-Lieutenant of Moray Seymour Monro and Lord-Lieutenant of Banffshire Andrew Simpson to Station Park.
The air force spokesperson, Ibikunle Daramola, who provided details of the crash in a statement on Thursday, named the five victims as Flight Lieutenant Perowei Jacob, who was the Pilot-in-Command and Flight Lieutenant Kaltho Paul Kilyofas as Co-Pilot.
After Lieutenant-General Huwala retired in October 2006, Lieutenant General Martin Shalli headed the NDF.
A heavily armed military manhunt took place across Sierra Leone to find Lieutenant Sim Turay and other soldiers suspected to have participated in the assasination of Lieutenant Sandy.
Currently, promotion from second lieutenant to first lieutenant is virtually guaranteed after two years of satisfactory service.
Foveaux was taken back into active service in 1811 and promoted lieutenant-colonel of the Greek Light Infantry; he pursued an uneventful military career after that, rising to the rank of lieutenant-general.
In 1988, David Lam was appointed as British Columbia’s twenty-fifth Lieutenant-Governor, and was the Province's first Lieutenant-Governor of Chinese origin.
Lieutenant Boma ( Don Marshall ) criticises Spock's fascination with the weaponry of the natives after the death of Lieutenant Latimer (Rees Vaughn) at their hands.
Lieutenant-governor There is also a lieutenant-governor and an administrator.
Lieutenant Tobiensen's 'Speed Loader' In 1923 Lieutenant Tobiesen, working at Kongsberg Weapon Factory, designed what he called a 'Speed Loader for repeating rifles'.
Major General Suraj Alao Abdurrahman succeeded the previous incumbent, Lieutenant General Luka Yusuf, in early June 2007; Lieutenant General Yusuf had been posted home to Nigeria to become Chief of Army Staff.
Today the role of commissioner is analogous to that of a provincial lieutenant governor ; however, unlike lieutenant-governors, commissioners are not formal representatives of the Queen but are employees of the federal government.
According to Gauteng police spokesperson Lieutenant Colonel Mavela Masondo, before conducting sexual assault, the suspect approaches his victims and demands money and smartphones in Orlando and Diepkloof, Soweto.
After he and Princess Elizabeth moved to Malta in 1949, Philip served initially as First Lieutenant on the destroyer HMS Chequers.
A key lieutenant on the pitch long before becoming captain after the last World Cup, Ireland will need that assertive and laser-focussed leadership for the entirety of the next few weeks.
Alleged conman Sukesh Chandrashekhar has written a fresh letter to the Lieutenant Governor, alleging that his advocate, Anant Malik, was threatened by Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and former minister Satyendar Jain’s wife threatened his mother.
Also leaving after five incredible seasons is flight lieutenant David Simmonds.
Common combinations with lieutenant
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- lieutenant governor 35×
- lieutenant colonel 29×
- lieutenant general 21×
- lieutenant in 11×
- lord lieutenant 11×
- the lieutenant 10×
- as lieutenant 10×
- second lieutenant 9×
- of lieutenant 8×
- and lieutenant 8×