How to Use commander in a Sentence

commander

noun

• Ramirez was the second SEAL team commander to die in about a year.
  — Danielle Wallace, Fox News, 22 Dec. 2022
• Axis commanders were now aware of the danger of British raiders from the desert.
  — Robert D. McFadden, New York Times, 4 Jan. 2024
• Mikkelsen will take the role of mission commander and Philips the role of pilot.
  — Richard Tribou, Orlando Sentinel, 15 Feb. 2025
• Mikkelsen will take the role of mission commander and Philips the role of pilot.
  — Richard Tribou, Orlando Sentinel, 23 Dec. 2024
• The commander looked pleased with himself about the crowd control.
  — Anand Gopal, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2024
• One of them was on the staff of the battle group commander, the other one was the leader of the destroyer squadron.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 May 2022
• The commander who was removed had not been seen in public for months.
  — Nectar Gan, CNN, 15 Sep. 2023
• At the end of the class, every leader is required to write a letter to the new commander of that army next year.
  — Eric Adler, Kansas City Star, 25 Jan. 2024
• Three more of the group’s key commanders were killed in subsequent strikes this past week.
  — Isabel Kershner, New York Times, 13 May 2023
• Shawn LaFleur, post commander of Tattler Post 973, led the event.
  — Olivia Alexander, Chicago Tribune, 29 May 2023
• In a basement a few miles from the house, commanders from the 251st Battalion studied the drone feed.
  — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2023
• The tank's commander jokes that 80% of any tanker’s life is spent keeping his armored beast alive.
  — Scott Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Mar. 2023
• The commander of the jail at that time and two other staff members were charged and convicted.
  — Vanessa Swales, Journal Sentinel, 13 June 2024
• For a unit commander, who goes by the callsign Tyson, any delay in that chain is a matter of life or death.
  — Erin Banco, Anastasiia Malenko, USA TODAY, 3 Feb. 2025
• The commander of the 144th Fighter Wing at the Fresno base was also removed.
  — Paul Pringlestaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 18 July 2022
• Israel took out several Hamas and Hezbollah commanders in the first six months of the war.
  — Barak Ravid, Axios, 20 Oct. 2024
• The regiment’s deputy commander was killed in the attack, the ministry said.
  — Ann M. Simmons and Jared Malsin, WSJ, 4 Jan. 2023
• Baldwin later removed the commander of the Guard’s air side, Maj.
  — Paul Pringlestaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 7 Jan. 2023
• Bowen, the mission commander, is the only one of the four who has previously flown to space.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Mar. 2023
• Ringing the doorbell there, Carter summoned the commander, who filled in Gandhi on the scourge of fentanyl.
  — Doug Smith, Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2023
• With a squad of rebels fanned out to watch for army patrols or helicopters, the unit commander and I and a few others talked for four hours.
  — Matt Thompson, SPIN, 5 Nov. 2024
• The second test had the operator take on the role of a section commander.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 5 Apr. 2023
• The commander said there is evidence that at least one of the victims returned fire at the assailants.
  — Peter Hermann, Washington Post, 27 Dec. 2022
• More than 100 commanders have been killed, the official said.
  — Lior Soroka, Washington Post, 23 Jan. 2024
• Arredondo was the on-site commander during the school shooting.
  — Harold Maass, The Week, 2 June 2022
• If the lawyers deem a strike unlawful, field commanders must cancel it.
  — Steven Erlanger, New York Times, 13 Dec. 2023
• State officials have said Mr. Arredondo failed as commander at the scene of the May 24 shooting.
  — Elizabeth Findell, WSJ, 24 Aug. 2022
• In April, the Navy fired the commander of its Hawaii supply logistics center, Capt.
  — Andrew Dyer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 May 2022
• And in theory, the Russian commander launched his attack at the right time—under the cover of the early morning darkness.
  — David Axe, Forbes, 6 Mar. 2025
• This tenet of environmental stewardship isn't usually part of the decision-making process for commanders in other military branches, like the Air Force or the Navy.
  — Ars Technica, 13 Mar. 2025