How to Use flag officer in a Sentence

flag officer

noun

• The hold affects only those at the very top — generals and flag officers.
  — USA TODAY, 10 July 2023
• Venezuela’s 1,000 or so flag officers operate in silos and are spied on by minders.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 24 Jan. 2019
• Of those, there are just 71 who are general or flag officers, wearing one to four stars, including only two who have attained the top four-star rank.
  — Robert Burns, Anchorage Daily News, 5 June 2020
• Inside its walls, flag officers observe a reverence and decorum for the wrenching decisions that have been made there.
  — Carol D. Leonnig, Philip Rucker, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Jan. 2020
• The man reportedly flagged officers down when a passenger in his car was showing signs of overdosing.
  — Brian Lisik, cleveland, 31 May 2020
• The Generals: The positive news about foreign policy is supposed to be that a group of flag officers stands between Donald Trump and the next reckless military move.
  — James Fallows, The Atlantic, 31 Oct. 2017
• But senior lawmakers in recent weeks have worked to provide Tuberville with an off-ramp to the impasse, which is so far holding up the nominations of some 260 general and flag officers.
  — David Sivak, Washington Examiner, 12 July 2023
• The Pentagon report establishes a new command structure led by a four-star flag officer and a single civilian position to oversee the command.
  — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 9 Aug. 2018
• Americans also got to hear from the military’s retired leadership as a bevy of flag officers—both on the right and the left—weighed in on domestic political matters in unprecedented ways.
  — Elliot Ackerman, Foreign Affairs, 24 Aug. 2021
• The Pentagon has said Tuberville’s holds are putting the nation’s military readiness at risk, as 650 general and flag officers will require Senate confirmation by year’s end.
  — Glenn Kessler, Anchorage Daily News, 26 July 2023
• There’s some question here whether [Jackson’s] flag officer nomination will move forward given his VA nomination.
  — Washington Post, 8 Apr. 2018
• There’s some question here whether (Jackson’s) flag officer nomination will move forward given his VA nomination.
  — Andrew Degrandpre, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Apr. 2018
• These proceedings can only be convened by the US president, secretary of defense, the commanding officer of a major military installation or by a general or flag officer.
  — Cnn Editorial Research, CNN, 17 June 2021
• The exercise, unprecedented in scope in recent city history, is designed to help prosecutors flag officers with credibility issues early in a case and possibly prevent their testimony, District Attorney Larry Krasner said in an interview last week.
  — Mark Fazlollah, Philly.com, 4 June 2018

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024