How to Use commandant in a Sentence

commandant

noun

• Among the frozen promotions are for the commandant of the Marines and, later this month, the chair of the joint chiefs of staff.
  — Paul Gattis | [e-mail], al, 6 Sep. 2023
• At the best of times, the office of commandant is one of the proudest in the military.
  — New York Times, 31 Dec. 2019
• Brown returned to the weapons school as its commandant.
  — Tara Copp, BostonGlobe.com, 25 May 2023
• Karl Streibel had been the commandant of the Trawniki training camp.
  — Debbie Cenziper, Washington Post, 23 Jan. 2020
• But the new palace commandant said there was no other way.
  — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, National Review, 14 Oct. 2021
• Among them were the Army secretary and chief of staff, the commandant of the Marine Corps and the top two officers in the Navy.
  — Tom Vanden Brook, USA TODAY, 9 Apr. 2020
• The president of the United States or the commandant of the Marine Corps or someone would like to call.
  — Callum Borchers, Washington Post, 19 Oct. 2017
• The father, Rudolf Höss (Christian Friedel), is the camp’s commandant.
  — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Dec. 2023
• At one of them the station’s commandant emerged from his gatehouse to check out our bikes and took a liking to my fly rod.
  — Nate Matthews, Field & Stream, 7 Dec. 2020
• The band’s mission is to provide music for the president of the United States and the commandant of the Marine Corps.
  — Emily Sorensen, Pomerado News, 18 Oct. 2019
• But when the commandant’s job opened in 2015, the Marines had spent nearly two decades in a state of constant deployment.
  — Sam Walker, WSJ, 28 June 2018
• Our film is about Rudolf Höss, the commandant of Auschwitz, and his family, who built a beautiful life just behind the wall of the camp.
  — Carolyn Giardina, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Dec. 2023
• The commandant relented, put his pistol back in the holster and walked away.
  — Fox News, 17 Jan. 2023
• Provocatively, the story came in part from the perspective of the camp commandant.
  — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Jan. 2024
• Wallace writes, the commandant of the prison offered to let McCain, the son of a top-ranking US naval officer, go.
  — Caroline Houck, Vox, 26 Aug. 2018
• The prison commandant, not at all pleased, right there in his office had guards break McCain’s ribs, rebreak his arm, knock his teeth out.
  — Elliot Kaufman, National Review, 19 July 2017
• When the study was shifted to the war college, plans for a foreword by the Army leadership were dropped in favor of one by the war-college commandant.
  — Michael R. Gordon, WSJ, 22 Oct. 2018
• The system also enabled the commandant to relay messages from his desk to the entire camp.
  — Simon Parkin, Time, 2 Nov. 2022
• For the unacquainted, a quick description: the movie is about Rudolf Höss, the real-life commandant of Auschwitz, who lived in a home that shared a garden wall with the camp.
  — Longreads, 5 Jan. 2024
• Greene, later the Marine Corps commandant, wanted Marines in space by 1968.
  — Tom Vanden Brook, USA TODAY, 11 July 2018
• Marines can appeal any denials to the assistant commandant of the Marine Corps.
  — Lolita C. Baldor, ajc, 14 Jan. 2022
• The movie tells the story of a Nazi commandant who tries to build a beautiful life for his family next to the Auschwitz concentration camp.
  — Rebecca Aizin, Peoplemag, 18 Dec. 2023
• There’s just one catch: Her husband is none other than Rudolf Höss, the long-serving commandant of Auschwitz, and their attractive villa looks out over the camp.
  — Giles Harvey, New York Times, 19 Dec. 2023
• The administrators are, too, including Col. William Wanovich, the commandant of the cadets.
  — Ian Shapira, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2020
• But in the days following the announcement, Gen. James Amos, the Marine commandant, put a surprising spin on the cuts to his branch’s biggest programs.
  — David Axe, WIRED, 18 Jan. 2011
• The children’s book follows 9-year-old Bruno, a German boy whose father has just been promoted to commandant at Auschwitz.
  — Ellen Wexler, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 May 2024
• Marine Corps commandant, Gen. David Berger, is less than pleased.
  — Sébastien Roblin, Popular Mechanics, 16 Mar. 2023
• The Marines are currently being led by an acting commandant, while the chief of staff of the Army, chief naval officer, and Air Force chief of staff will all leave their positions in the next three months.
  — Mike Brest, Washington Examiner, 1 Aug. 2023
• Then came a problem: The commandant of Piraeus placed Twain’s ship under quarantine.
  — John J. Miller, National Review, 16 Apr. 2020
• Bruno’s father, the Nazi commandant, feels very guilty about his son’s death—and perhaps for his broader culpability for the atrocities at Auschwitz, too.
  — Ellen Wexler, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 May 2024

Last Updated: 2 Dec 2024