Explore Rumsfeld through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Rumsfeld in a sentence
Rumsfeld meaning
A surname.
Using Rumsfeld
- The main meaning on this page is: A surname.
- In the example corpus, rumsfeld often appears in combinations such as: donald rumsfeld, rumsfeld has, defense rumsfeld.
Context around Rumsfeld
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 11 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Rumsfeld
- In this selection, "rumsfeld" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, donald, 2007, reality, established, foundation and watch stand out and add context to how "rumsfeld" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include as donald rumsfeld once said and built into rumsfeld s explanation. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "rumsfeld" sits close to words such as absentees, accruing and aerosmith, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with rumsfeld
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Rumsfeld v. Forum for Acad. (5 words)
But in reality, Rumsfeld, too, had a sizable bad-guy problem. (11 words)
Think like a pro, say, Donald Rumsfeld: are there rich targets here? (12 words)
Spurred on, he straightens up his act, finds an entry into the state’s Republican party, and winds up in Washington as a Congressional intern to an Illinois representative named Donald Rumsfeld (Steve Carell, so perfectly cast that you just want to cry). (43 words)
That was, respectively, Donald Trump, his U.N. ambassador Nikki Haley, and, of course, George W. Bush’s defense secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, a blast from the past, coming back to give us all his infamous pearls of wisdom on the Middle East. (42 words)
As a speechwriter for US president George W. Bush and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld in the first decade of this century, Thiessen was directly responsible for pushing lies that resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan. (41 words)
Think like a pro, say, Donald Rumsfeld: are there rich targets here? (12 words)
Example sentences (20)
In 2007, Rumsfeld established The Rumsfeld Foundation, which focuses on encouraging public service in the United States and supporting the growth of free political and free economic systems abroad.
Gov. Mike Leavitt and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld watch the ladies figure skating short program on Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2002 at the Salt Lake Ice Center.
More than two years after his death, the odious spirit of Donald Rumsfeld has been resurrected.
Rumsfeld v. Forum for Acad.
The assumption built into Rumsfeld’s explanation was that there was something special — even exceptional — about U.S. citizens.
As a speechwriter for US president George W. Bush and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld in the first decade of this century, Thiessen was directly responsible for pushing lies that resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan.
But in reality, Rumsfeld, too, had a sizable bad-guy problem.
Donald Rumsfeld, former CIA director George Tenet and Dick Cheney all opposed clemency.
Would have been amusing if the army we had--as opposed to the army we wished we had--included Rumsfeld.
And a common response I heard was that just as they -- that Abu Ghraib was not reflective of American values-- or something that President Bush or Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld would have approved.
Later on, in the years between 2000 and 2010, we witnessed the destruction of the « Greater Middle East », this time according to the Rumsfeld-Cebrowski doctrine.
The detention of migrants at the border in the Trump years echoes Rumsfeld’s refusal to share real numbers, but has gone even further in creating a kind of numerical imprecision around reality itself.
Think like a pro, say, Donald Rumsfeld: are there rich targets here?
We didn’t know that the Pentagon had just been attacked, so that’s why we couldn’t get Rumsfeld.
He joins the Republican Party apparently on a whim, and simply follows Rumsfeld's lead on whatever policies ought to be implemented.
It has forgotten that — as Donald Rumsfeld once said — weakness is provocative.
Lewis "Scooter" Libby, former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney, shares a laugh with former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld during a discussion at the conservative Hudson Institute.
Spurred on, he straightens up his act, finds an entry into the state’s Republican party, and winds up in Washington as a Congressional intern to an Illinois representative named Donald Rumsfeld (Steve Carell, so perfectly cast that you just want to cry).
That was, respectively, Donald Trump, his U.N. ambassador Nikki Haley, and, of course, George W. Bush’s defense secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, a blast from the past, coming back to give us all his infamous pearls of wisdom on the Middle East.
The subsequent Bush administration, including hawks like Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Vice President Dick Cheney scotched efforts by Colin Powell’s State Department to follow up the Clinton diplomacy.
Common combinations with rumsfeld
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: