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, 23 Dec. 2024 -
The commander looked pleased with himself about the crowd control.
— Anand Gopal, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2024 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
The Kremlin has now been forced to regroup and over the weekend appointed a new commander for its forces, Sergey Surovikin.
— Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 11 Oct. 2022 -
Dealey, the sub’s commander, was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor and a Silver Star.
— Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 May 2024 -
Instead the commander of the Leyte nominated him for a Medal of Honor.
— John Blake, CNN, 25 Nov. 2022 -
The former commander of the Union Army, Grant started riding and training horses in his youth.
— Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Mar. 2023 -
The brigade commander, Col. Mikhail Gudkov, was wounded.
— David Axe, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2024 -
Over the years, there has been some limited coverage of the commander's lock program.
— Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 22 Jan. 2024 -
Shoup, the commander on duty at the time, soon realized more calls would come in because the phone number was a misprint from a newspaper ad.
— Phaedra Trethan, USA TODAY, 24 Dec. 2024 -
The latter film stars Austin Butler, who plays a street soldier turned commander with ambitions of building his own dynasty.
— Hikmat Mohammed, WWD, 18 Dec. 2024
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