How to Use cadet in a Sentence

cadet

noun
  • LaMay joined the State Patrol in 1999 as a trooper cadet.
    al, 2 Feb. 2022
  • In that picture, Calkins stands out from the other cadets.
    Thomas Lake, CNN Money, 21 Apr. 2023
  • But the next day it’s discovered that while the dead cadet’s body lay in the morgue, his heart was cut out and taken.
    Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 22 Dec. 2022
  • The cadet is now staying with a high school friend in another state.
    Dave Collins, Hartford Courant, 2 Sep. 2022
  • On the grounds, with a river view, a cadet has been found hanging and presumed to be a suicide.
    John Anderson, WSJ, 5 Jan. 2023
  • More than 30 Ukrainian cadets, who were over 18, were sent to a navy base at the Russian port of Novorossiysk for training.
    Carlotta Gall, New York Times, 27 Dec. 2023
  • Then a new cadre of cadets finished their training course and joined Simon’s unit.
    Dan Senor, Fortune, 5 Nov. 2023
  • The event was live-streamed and cadets were filmed giving their own predictions for what was inside the box.
    CBS News, 31 Aug. 2023
  • The first Black cadet to graduate from the Coast Guard Academy.
    Bernard McGhee, ajc, 10 Dec. 2021
  • Cochran began his career as a police cadet in Mobile and worked his way up the ranks over the course of three decades.
    al, 4 Jan. 2022
  • McCullough joined the department in 1985 as one of just two Black cadets that year.
    Cassidy Jensen, Baltimore Sun, 17 Apr. 2023
  • Then one snowy night a cadet finds another hanging from a tree.
    Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 22 Dec. 2022
  • Officials say that cadets stashed the capsule in the monument around 1828.
    Ellen Wexler, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Sep. 2023
  • The story is set around West Point in 1830, and Bale plays a world-weary detective hired to investigate the death of a cadet.
    Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 5 Jan. 2023
  • He’s drawn out of his lair, reluctantly, when a West Point cadet’s body is found hanging from a tree.
    Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 23 Dec. 2022
  • The expression on Ray’s face is one of grim resolve, like a cadet at attention.
    David Salle, The New York Review of Books, 17 Nov. 2022
  • Many of the cadets come from seafaring families and are the third, fourth or even fifth generation to take on the trade.
    Marc Santora Laetitia Vancon, New York Times, 26 Sep. 2023
  • And he was blown away by the advanced drones some Chinese police cadets were learning to pilot.
    Michael E. Miller, Washington Post, 21 Aug. 2023
  • The sepia portrait showed a fresh-faced cadet, barely older than Nikita was now, in a Red Army tunic and wool cap.
    James Verini, New York Times, 19 May 2022
  • The plan calls for more police officers on the streets through overtime and more police cadet classes.
    Fox News, 11 Feb. 2022
  • Turley is currently a senior and a cadet lieutenant colonel in the program.
    Emma Hall, Sacramento Bee, 23 Feb. 2024
  • That black cadet, Livingston Holder, went on to be an Air Force astronaut.
    Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2023
  • Paredes started as a cadet with the department and in July 2000 was sworn in as a full-time officer.
    Los Angeles Times, 18 June 2022
  • The cadet, Leroy Fry (Steven Meier), was hanged and, in an even more disturbing turn of events, had his heart cut out and stolen while his body sat inside the school’s hospital.
    Megan McCluskey, Time, 6 Jan. 2023
  • Curious West Point cadets threw out their guesses: mess hall silverware, a U.S. flag, a pair of boots, a diary, a class ring and maps.
    Alexandra E. Petri, Los Angeles Times, 29 Aug. 2023
  • The film is historical fiction, but Poe really was a cadet at West Point.
    Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Dec. 2022
  • Santana, 31, had been on the job for less than a year; Paredes, 42, was his training officer and came up through the department’s cadet program.
    Los Angeles Times, 22 June 2022
  • Like Demonte, Hamzy was an advisor to a police cadet program.
    Dave Collins and Jennifer Peltz, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Oct. 2022
  • The cadet planning to commission into the Army nearly lost his chance to become an officer.
    Washington Post, 30 Dec. 2021
  • The cadet was arrested and the motive has yet to be established, authorities said.
    Junko Ogura, CNN, 14 June 2023

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