How to Use brigadier general in a Sentence

brigadier general

noun

• Since the spring, the field has been frozen in place, with former Army brigadier general Don Bolduc holding a strong lead.
  — James Pindell, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Sep. 2022
• One of Carroll's sons, Thomas C. Carroll, reached the rank of brigadier general.
  — Mark Thiessen, Anchorage Daily News, 23 June 2018
• He was later moved to the defense ministry and named brigadier general in the Sandinista Army.
  — New York Times, 16 Feb. 2022
• Appointed brigadier general at 61 years old, Otis sailed to the Philippines.
  — Joe Mozingo, latimes.com, 17 June 2018
• At one point, after his injuries led Lynch to retire from the Army, a brigadier general tried to reduce Lynch back to a colonel, Bigwood said.
  — Janelle Walker, Elgin Courier-News, 25 Sep. 2017
• The commander of the hospital, a brigadier general, hovered two paces behind the body.
  — Elliot Ackerman, WIRED, 5 Feb. 2024
• Thomas Jefferson named Rogers Clark a brigadier general in 1781.
  — Washington Post, 11 July 2021
• He was quickly promoted to brigadier general, but lost his right arm in battle in June 1862.
  — Daniel Sharfstein, Smithsonian, 23 May 2017
• Hamzah, 41, has held multiple positions within the monarchy and is a brigadier general in the army.
  — Washington Post, 7 Apr. 2021
• The brigadier general said the facility where the shooting took place was not under his command.
  — Matthew Barakat, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Apr. 2021
• He was promoted to brigadier general in 1972, one of eight Black Army generals.
  — Trip Gabriel, New York Times, 5 Dec. 2023
• Henderson, 53, was passed over three times for brigadier general.
  — Helene Cooper New York Times, Star Tribune, 4 Mar. 2021
• Across the hall, amid a dozen or so family photos is one of her grandfather, who was a brigadier general in the Confederate Army.
  — Valeriya Safronova, New York Times, 15 Aug. 2019
• The general also was the first Hispanic to attain the rank of brigadier general, according to biography.com.
  — Alexandria Rodriguez, USA TODAY, 31 Oct. 2017
• The eagle-eyed West Virginia native is a humorous speaker, and there is nothing shy about the man who rose to become brigadier general.
  — Rob Verger, Popular Science, 8 Dec. 2020
• At Shiloh, Rockwell ran into Garfield—then a brigadier general and brigade commander—and the two reconnected.
  — Jason Emerson, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Jan. 2022
• Lorna Mahlock has been nominated to serve as the first black female brigadier general, the Marine Corps media office said.
  — Sophie Tatum, CNN, 12 Apr. 2018
• Its current boss is a brigadier general with no oil experience.
  — The Economist, 12 July 2019
• Expecting to be court-martialed for losing his planes, Doolittle was instead promoted on the spot to brigadier general, with a Medal of Honor to follow.
  — Daniel Ford, WSJ, 2 Oct. 2020
• Yeager’s renown grew, his honors piled up, and the promotions, finally to brigadier general, kept coming.
  — Steve Chawkins, Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2020
• This leaves the largest armored formation in the world under the command of a brigadier general with little or no experience in armored warfare.
  — Robert M. Berg, National Review, 19 May 2021
• Gourdin left the unit in 1950 when he was promoted to colonel and later retired as a brigadier general, the first Black soldier to attain that rank in the Massachusetts National Guard.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 7 Oct. 2021
• Throckmorton was a brigadier general for the Confederate Army during the Civil War.
  — Dallas News, 19 Oct. 2020
• Bradley Moses retired this year after his promotion to brigadier general had been denied by the U.S. Senate without comment.
  — James Gordon Meek, ABC News, 11 Nov. 2021
• Doctor Sebastian Gorka, and former brigadier general Tony Tata is with us.
  — Fox News, 13 Apr. 2018
• Résumé high points: The retired brigadier general served as the Army’s highest-ranking psychiatrist.
  — Caroline Spivack, Curbed, 4 Jan. 2021
• The statue of a former Confederate brigadier general in McKinney’s downtown square will remain in place — for now.
  — Jon Arnold, Dallas News, 21 Oct. 2020
• But 83-year-old Tzuri Sagi, a retired brigadier general, has more reason than most Israelis to root for Kurdish independence.
  — David M. Halbfinger, New York Times, 22 Sep. 2017
• Among the honors Woodhouse received Monday was an appointment to the state militia as a lieutenant colonel, and promotions to colonel and brigadier general, officials said.
  — Katie Mogg, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Oct. 2022
• There aren’t speeches by admirals or brigadier generals.
  — John Wilkens, sandiegouniontribune.com, 28 May 2018

Last Updated: 5 Oct 2024