How to Use cadet in a Sentence

cadet

noun
  • Her boyfriend, a naval cadet, receives a monthly military stipend of $480.
    Andrew E. Kramer, New York Times, 5 Aug. 2019
  • Midshipmen and cadets who transfer in are required to enter as freshmen, with all credits lost and gruelling summer training ahead.
    Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 27 Oct. 2024
  • Friday night, Civil Air Patrol cadets went out looking for a plane’s black box as part of the exercise.
    Doug Ross, Chicago Tribune, 14 Oct. 2024
  • The cadet program is an effort that Cambridge police, which has struggled to recruit new officers, hopes to begin this fall.
    Gal Tziperman Lotan, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Aug. 2019
  • After completing the cadet program, he was hired as a reserve firefighter in Santa Ana.
    Daily Pilot, 26 July 2019
  • Sellers started out as a volunteer cadet before he was hired as a full-time police officer in 1985.
    Thy Vo, The Mercury News, 5 Sep. 2019
  • Other officers led tours of the major crimes van and handed out information to prospective police Explorers and cadets.
    Don Stacom, courant.com, 24 Aug. 2019
  • Wonder what the culture is like for the cadet in the front?
    Fox News, 22 Dec. 2019
  • Williams said of the cadets, who go on to be officers in the Army.
    Roxana Tiron, Bloomberg.com, 27 Apr. 2020
  • Melling will play the bb Poe, a cadet at West Point who assists in the case.
    Bethy Squires, Vulture, 10 June 2021
  • More than 200 cadets would join the infantry and take on the bulk of the fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan.
    Mark Yost, WSJ, 10 Nov. 2023
  • LaMay joined the State Patrol in 1999 as a trooper cadet.
    al, 2 Feb. 2022
  • The quarantined student was not one of the cadets present at the event with Pence.
    Madison Dibble, Washington Examiner, 3 Mar. 2020
  • In that picture, Calkins stands out from the other cadets.
    Thomas Lake, CNN Money, 21 Apr. 2023
  • Coach Troy Calhoun and the cadets deserve all the credit right now.
    Dp Opinion, The Denver Post, 30 Dec. 2019
  • One of their dogs was a military cadet meant for Delta Force.
    Discover Magazine, 14 Oct. 2024
  • 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
  • Indeed, after all the West Point cadets were sent home for spring break in March, Lt.
    Eric Schmitt, New York Times, 24 Apr. 2020
  • 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
  • This is where the 18-year-old cadet would meet his third cousin, 13-year-old Princess Elizabeth.
    Katie Frost, Town & Country, 9 Apr. 2021
  • 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 one-time police youth cadet could get life in prison if convicted.
    CBS News, 3 Nov. 2021
  • 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
  • The cadet’s death was first reported by San Jose Inside.
    Alejandro Serrano, SFChronicle.com, 24 June 2020

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