How to Use lieutenant colonel in a Sentence

lieutenant colonel

noun

• Ruby was walked down the aisle by the lieutenant colonel in charge of her MASH unit.
  — Meg Jones, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 22 Feb. 2018
• Torney was 55, a lieutenant colonel, and a man who knew what to do.
  — Carl Nolte, SFChronicle.com, 11 Apr. 2020
• Shower worked for two decades as a pilot in the Air Force and held the rank of lieutenant colonel.
  — Nathaniel Herz, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Feb. 2018
• By the time the Civil War drew to a close in April 1865, he’d been promoted to lieutenant colonel.
  — Jason Emerson, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Jan. 2022
• Her husband is a lieutenant colonel in the Marine Corps.
  — Alicia Fabbre, chicagotribune.com, 13 July 2021
• In 2007, Latimer retired with the rank of lieutenant colonel.
  — Samantha Masunaga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 June 2019
• The commander, a lieutenant colonel who goes by the call sign Kupol, served in the 46th Air Assault Brigade.
  — Isabelle Khurshudyan, Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2023
• The bride’s father retired as a lieutenant colonel in the Air Force Reserve.
  — New York Times, 8 Oct. 2017
• One son retired as a lieutenant colonel in the Air Force, and a grandson retired as a sergeant.
  — Shelly Haskins, al.com, 23 June 2019
• Nicole Berry and her husband, Dwight, a lieutenant colonel in the Army, know a thing or two about coping with chaos.
  — Melody Warnick, Woman's Day, 30 May 2018
• Glen Hines said, seeming to empathize with the lieutenant colonel.
  — NBC News, 14 Oct. 2021
• McGrath retired from the Marines in 2017 as a lieutenant colonel and moved back to Kentucky.
  — Lucas Aulbach, The Courier-Journal, 9 July 2019
• The same award was given to lieutenant colonel Oleksii Osypenko.
  — Katya Soldak, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2022
• The bill states that the sheriff’s salary would be equal to the pay of the highest available step for a lieutenant colonel in the Maryland State Police.
  — Sherry Greenfield, Baltimore Sun, 20 Jan. 2024
• Davis retired from the Army in 1985 at the rank of lieutenant colonel and now resides in Alexandria, Virginia.
  — Misty Severi, Washington Examiner, 3 Mar. 2023
• Mahtabudin Safi, an Afghan air force lieutenant colonel, came here with his wife and eight children, who range from 2 to 16 years old.
  — Sig Christenson, San Antonio Express-News, 25 Dec. 2021
• In the message, Li requested that the lieutenant colonel send $2,500 to Li’s address in Crest Hill.
  — Alicia Fabbre, Daily Southtown, 14 Apr. 2018
• David Castillo, a retired lieutenant colonel who spent 31 years in the Army, works for Clorox in Aberdeen.
  — David Anderson, The Aegis, 9 July 2018
• West, 59, a native of Atlanta, served in the U.S. Army, retiring as a lieutenant colonel.
  — Fox News, 24 May 2020
• The lieutenant colonel pulled the Velcro press identifier off my body armor and dropped it down the hole.
  — Michael Tobin, Fox News, 12 Feb. 2024
• The lieutenant colonel then ordered a private to escort the general out of their zone.
  — David Kindy, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Nov. 2020
• The lieutenant colonel and the foundation have raised more than $2 million for him and his family.
  — NBC News, 14 Oct. 2021
• His wife, Peggy Bahnsen, a retired lieutenant colonel, confirmed the death.
  — Michael S. Rosenwald, New York Times, 4 Mar. 2024
• Ben is a lieutenant colonel and an orthopedic surgeon for the British Army.
  — Regina Tingle, Good Housekeeping, 5 Nov. 2021
• Vindman was promoted to the rank of Army lieutenant colonel in 2015.
  — NBC News, 20 Nov. 2019
• When the Allied force landed, Kemal, then a lieutenant colonel, was being held in a reserve unit five miles from the front.
  — Steven A. Cook, Foreign Affairs, 23 Apr. 2015
• The party made camp the first night in Frederick, Maryland, where a brevet lieutenant colonel joined the group as a last-minute observer for the Tank Corps.
  — al.com, 7 July 2019
• Thomas, a 31-year veteran of the patrol, was its deputy director and retired at the rank of lieutenant colonel.
  — Steve Bousquet, miamiherald, 24 Jan. 2018
• The Iraq War veteran is currently a lieutenant colonel in the Army Reserve.
  — Salena Zito, Washington Examiner, 23 Feb. 2021
• The next day the mustachioed lieutenant colonel returned and found Ivan and his fellow ‘‘rogue’’ officers.
  — Sarah A. Topol, New York Times, 20 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 12 Dec 2024