How to Use first lieutenant in a Sentence

first lieutenant

noun

• He was discharged with the rank of first lieutenant in 1953.
  — Maggie Astor, New York Times, 21 Jan. 2018
• Joan Morris is the niece of first lieutenant Robert Schmidt.
  — Fox News, 30 June 2018
• Now in the reserves' Colorado Springs unit, the first lieutenant is able to telework to keep on track for the captain rank this May.
  — Megan Ryan, Star Tribune, 24 Mar. 2021
• He was honorably discharged in 1946 with the rank of first lieutenant.
  — Bonnie L. Cook, Philly.com, 21 Sep. 2017
• He was discharged the following year as a first lieutenant.
  — Ben Bradlee, The New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2021
• Alona Koval’s younger sister, Maryna Golinko, is a medic and first lieutenant with the Ukrainian 36th brigade.
  — David L. Stern, Washington Post, 2 Oct. 2022
• David Cheap, the first lieutenant of the Centurion, the squadron’s flagship, was no different.
  — David Grann, The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2023
• He was eventually promoted to first lieutenant, and was a member of the 75th Rangers Regime.
  — Alexis Chestnov, Peoplemag, 10 Nov. 2022
• Will had risen to the rank of major and Cully, who often cooked at the encampment activities for the young cadets, was first lieutenant.
  — Deanna Weniger, Twin Cities, 22 Oct. 2019
• On the museum’s website, read stories and tributes such as one to Sharon Lane, a first lieutenant during the Vietnam War.
  — Michele Herrmann, Forbes, 28 May 2021
• Dad was a Seabee, an engineer and first lieutenant in the Naval Construction Battalion.
  — Diane Covington-Carter, latimes.com, 3 June 2019
• Her brother left the Army as a first lieutenant a couple of years after the deployment and is now a corporate refinance lawyer in New York City.
  — Sig Christenson, San Antonio Express-News, 24 Dec. 2021
• Langley, then a first lieutenant, was also one of few young Black Marines based in the prestigious downtown D.C. barracks.
  — Rachel Chason and Dan Lamothe, BostonGlobe.com, 20 July 2022
• After 13 months in Korea, now a first lieutenant, he was moved to Quantico as an instructor.
  — Mort Mazor, sun-sentinel.com, 5 Nov. 2021
• The Air Force first lieutenant was once given a mission to attack an enemy airport in Burma.
  — Lilly Nguyen, latimes.com, 13 June 2019
• Street-to-street fighting has become so intense over the past month that many Ukrainian units need to be rotated out of the city after just two weeks, according to the first lieutenant.
  — Susannah George and Serhii Korolchuk, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Apr. 2023
• The soldier, a first lieutenant with the Virginia National Guard, stole the armored command post before taking it on the interstate.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 6 June 2018
• Coelman is the first lieutenant governor in Kentucky's history to welcome a new child while in office.
  — Billy Kobin, The Courier-Journal, 8 Feb. 2020
• The company went into the drill very reluctantly, having only thirty-nine men in line, the first lieutenant and right guide being among the missing.
  — Merrie Monteagudo, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Apr. 2021
• Bailey was honorably discharged from the Women’s Army Corps as a first lieutenant in January 1946.
  — al, 11 Nov. 2020
• The sourness that was a first lieutenant on Monday had been demoted to private first class on Tuesday — and confined to barracks by those two-star peppers, so impressed with their power.
  — Tim Carman, Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2023
• Tiscareño-Sato, 54, was fresh out of flight training, a first lieutenant and graduate of the University of California, Berkeley.
  — Elaine Ayala, San Antonio Express-News, 10 Nov. 2021
• The Marine Corps first lieutenant that earned the military’s second highest citation posthumously during the Vietnam Way lived a life of faith and service to his country, according to those who knew him.
  — Tracy Maness, Houston Chronicle, 21 May 2018
• Collins was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army shortly before his death; he was posthumously promoted to first lieutenant in September 2020.
  — baltimoresun.com, 14 Oct. 2021
• He was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Marine Corps, later became a first lieutenant and ended his military career in 1956 as an instructor pilot.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 30 Sep. 2019
• Hochul moved to the left, politically, when Cuomo tapped her as his running mate in 2014 after his first lieutenant governor, former Rochester mayor Robert Duffy, decided not to run for reelection.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 10 Aug. 2021
• The proper configuration of officers would have been the company captain, three first lieutenants as patrol leaders and four second lieutenants commanding the rest.
  — oregonlive.com, 6 June 2019
• But White thinks his navigator, a major, quietly talked to command because after White’s normal promotion to first lieutenant, he was quickly given command of his own B-29 crew.
  — Trent Reedy, Washington Examiner, 12 Nov. 2020
• Upon graduation Wilton was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army and later was promoted to first lieutenant and company commander.
  — Sun-Sentinel.com, 3 June 2018
• Linehan’s official announcement was made Wednesday morning as the first lieutenant governor candidate on a major ticket in an ever-growing field of candidates in the 2018 race.
  — Christopher Keating, courant.com, 6 Sep. 2017

Last Updated: 15 Sep 2024