How to Use second lieutenant in a Sentence

second lieutenant

noun
  • Rapone is, as of this writing, a second lieutenant in the US Army.
    Christine M. Flowers, Philly.com, 29 Sep. 2017
  • In the early days, all new members came in with the rank of second lieutenant.
    George Dohrmann, SI.com, 17 Jan. 2018
  • Marines in the field knew to be dubious of new young second lieutenants like Mueller.
    Garrett M. Graff, WIRED, 15 May 2018
  • He had just been commissioned as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army.
    Washington Post, 17 Oct. 2017
  • Find a Grave shows Ross was from Indiana and died at age 28 as a second lieutenant.
    Krista Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 27 May 2022
  • At that time he was commissioned a second lieutenant and served in the U.S. Army until 1981.
    Kevin Dayhoff, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 14 Sep. 2019
  • Martin earned his wings in 1944 and was commissioned a second lieutenant, then flew with a squadron based in Italy.
    al, 7 Nov. 2019
  • The now three-star general was commissioned as a second lieutenant and rose through the ranks.
    Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 6 Sep. 2019
  • There’s the photo of him and his three brothers, all in uniform, on the day in 1983 when he was promoted to second lieutenant.
    Samantha Schmidt, Washington Post, 12 May 2022
  • Wilkerson passed his flight test in 1946, earning his wings and a rank of second lieutenant.
    Alexandra Kukulka Chicago Tribune (tns), al, 3 Mar. 2023
  • In the same year, Gabbard was commissioned as a second lieutenant.
    Nataly Pak, ABC News, 19 Mar. 2020
  • Cianci was a second lieutenant in the Army, stationed at Fort Devens, and wearing his dress blues.
    BostonGlobe.com, 20 Oct. 2019
  • Phillips is on track to graduate from West Point in May 2026, to which she will be commissioned as a second lieutenant.
    Alex Thomas, Arkansas Online, 23 Jan. 2023
  • Ramos held every rank in the Philippine army from second lieutenant to commander-in-chief.
    Reuters, CNN, 31 July 2022
  • In 1999, she was also commissioned as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps.
    Jourdan Bennett-Begaye, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Aug. 2022
  • The jury consisted of two men and two women ranging in rank from colonel to second lieutenant.
    Sig Christenson, ExpressNews.com, 19 Aug. 2020
  • In 1954, after the founding of the state of Israel, he was drafted into the Israeli Defense Forces as a second lieutenant.
    Robert D. Hershey Jr., New York Times, 27 Mar. 2024
  • Collins was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army shortly before his death.
    Washington Post, 6 June 2019
  • And Cheap, who’d initially served as Anson’s second lieutenant, was now his right-hand man.
    David Grann, The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2023
  • This is the story: There was a brand-new second lieutenant who was very ambitious and wanted to be a general.
    Chris Morris, Fortune, 18 Oct. 2021
  • About a year later he was promoted to second lieutenant, and less than a year after that he was killed during his fifth mission of the war.
    Krista Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 27 May 2022
  • He had also been commissioned into the U.S. Army as a second lieutenant.
    Washington Post, 14 Jan. 2021
  • Afterward, she was commissioned in the Army as a second lieutenant.
    Adam Carlson, PEOPLE.com, 30 July 2019
  • Chet, a second lieutenant in the 297th combat engineers, landed the next morning.
    Jane Ford-Stewart, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5 July 2018
  • Steve Hoover being promoted from sergeant as our second lieutenant (with Lt.
    Brian Lisik/special To Cleveland.com, cleveland.com, 3 Apr. 2018
  • By 1917, he was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Army Officer Reserve Corps.
    Donna Reiner, azcentral, 15 Feb. 2020
  • His bid backfired when he was posted as a second lieutenant to a combat outpost south of Algiers, the capital.
    Bob Drogin, Washington Post, 13 Dec. 2023
  • My father, for instance, held a junior rank as a priest, roughly equivalent to that of a second lieutenant in the military.
    Haruki Murakami, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2019
  • The gunman, a second lieutenant, was fatally shot by a sheriff's deputy responding to the attack.
    John Bacon, USA TODAY, 12 Jan. 2020
  • The graduates receive commissions as Navy ensigns or second lieutenants in the Marine Corps and serve at least five years.
    Jeff Barker, baltimoresun.com, 25 May 2018

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