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• His lieutenants hired a team of miners to help spring him.From the entry spring
• The prosecutor offered the lieutenant immunity for all the crimes he would testify having known to be planned by the elusive drug baron.From the entry immunity
• Zuckerberg’s repositioning of Meta started in earnest last year, when he began rearranging his bench of lieutenants.2022 July 26, Mike Isaac, “‘Operating With Increased Intensity’: Zuckerberg Leads Meta Into Next Phase”, in The New York Times. From the entry bench
• “Lieutenant Cauthen, you've got ten seconds to explain yourself before I put you in hack!”2013, David Cauthen, When Destiny Comes to a Fork in the Road, page 426. From the entry hack
• “That's my lieutenant,” said Agent Riley runnin' over to the meat wagon to see the body.2010, Steve E. Wright, Bloodline of a Mafia, →ISBN. From the entry meat wagon
• Recalling his anxiety as an unblooded lieutenant on the eve of the Mexican War, Ulysses S.2009 October 11, Elizabeth D. Samet, “Marine Dreams”, in New York Times. From the entry unblooded
• All you need to do is drop all charges against our lieutenant commander."2005 November 6, Howard Tayler, Schlock Mercenary, archived from the original on 27 Jan 2024. From the entry trial by media
• "It felt very soviet, very intimidating", said Steven Sharp, one of Rose’s closest lieutenants.2004 November 14, “M&S coach Rose makes his pitch”, in Times Online. From the entry soviet
• "Lieutenant Hikowa, set the Shiva's course for mark one eight zero.2001, Eric Nylund, Halo: The Fall of Reach, New York: Del Rey, →ISBN, page 148. From the entry full-burn
• Lieutenant (junior grade) KERRY immediately maneuvered his craft through several strafing runs which completely silenced the enemy.1969, E.R. Zumwalt, Jr., Silver Star Citation - John Kerry. From the entry completely
• Lieutenant one day; major by the end of the week: lieutenant-colonel the week after.1965, Olivia Manning, Friends and Heroes (The Balkan Trilogy; 3), Bath: Chivers, page 895 (in series). From the entry half-colonel
• A lieutenant had to bludgeon him into unconsciousness before he could be stopped.1958 December, Finn O’Donnevan [pseudonym; Robert Sheckley], “Join Now”, in Galaxy Magazine, volume 17, number 2, New York, N.Y.: Galaxy…. From the entry berserk
• Lieutenant Colonels Smith and Gildea were awarded the Order of the Fatherland, Second Class.1955, Carl R[aymond] Gray, Jr., “Operations in Iran, 1942-1945”, in Railroading in Eighteen Countries: The Story of American Railroad Men…. From the entry lieutenant colonel
• Lieutenant Liudmila Pavlichenko, the Soviet girl sniper, visited the Dover area today.1942 November 10, “Girl Sniper Visits Dover”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived…. From the entry Liudmila
• They have helped foster a corrosive, mean-spirited, angry and divisive atmosphere that May and her lieutenants are too weak to challenge.2017 March 27, “The Observer view on triggering article 50”, in The Observer. From the entry swill
• Lieutenant Axel suspected an air embolism, meaning that Savino had taken a breath and held it before they’d pulled him up.2017, Jennifer Egan, Manhattan Beach, Corsair, page 290. From the entry air embolism
• The brainstorming session with his lieutenants had prooven fremful.2015, LT Wolf, The World King (fiction), →ISBN. From the entry proove
• While other cooks are apprenticed to the kitchen, the sous is the lieutenant, the executor of Chef's wishes.2014, Michael Gibney, Sous Chef: 24 Hours in the Kitchen. From the entry sous
• “We don’t want it to be a summerlong event, though,” said Corrigan O’Donohue, a lieutenant with the Royal Oak Police Department.2007 August 3, Mary M. Chapman, “Growing Pains for a Yearly Tribute to Classic American Cars”, in New York Times. From the entry summerlong
• Barreto-Mojica, 48, who was to marry fire lieutenant Dennis Mojica.2006 September 11, Sheryl Gay Stolberg, “Bush Mourns 9/11 at Ground Zero as N.Y. Remembers”, in New York Times. From the entry eerily
• He was a natural lieutenant, not a leader, and it was a fact he accepted with neither bitterness nor regret.2006 October, credited to Robert Ludlum, chapter 15, in The Bancroft Strategy, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Press, →ISBN, page 264. From the entry could not get elected dogcatcher
• I've discovered the Lord doesn't need lackeys, lieutenants, minions, representatives and envoys to carry His water and discharge His affairs.2005, Martin Clark, Plain Heathen Mischief, page 394. From the entry carry someone's water
• Lieutenant Lindquist is navy through and through.1993, Robert A. Frezza, McLendon's Syndrome, page 299. From the entry navy
• The conquest of the northern provinces of Quito was undertaken by one of Pizarro’s lieutenants, Sebastian de Benalcazar.1992, Edwin Williamson, The Penguin history of Latin America, London; New York: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 27. From the entry Quito
• "I must admit," he said, "that the lieutenant, in his emotionalistically human way, has a definite point, Lucifer."1986, Glen A. Larson, Robert Thurston, chapter 25, in "Die, Chameleon!" (Battlestar Galactica; 12), →ISBN, →LCCN, →OL. From the entry emotionalistically
• His lieutenant was a former member of Tseng Kuo-fan's Hunan army, who resigned after the Taiping Rebellion and settled in Kinhwa.1971, Mary Backus Rankin, Early Chinese Revolutionaries Radical Intellectuals in Shanghai and Chekiang, 1902-1911, Harvard University…. From the entry Kinhwa
• A spruce young lieutenant came over, saluted and clambered into the back of our jeep, and we were off.1952, Norman Lewis, Golden Earth. From the entry spruce
• The lieutenant in charge of the traffic is a rude little bully, and Antonio has a passage at arms with him.1944, Iris Origo, War in Val d'Orcia, Pushkin Press, published 2017, page 259. From the entry passage of arms
• Barney Custer turned his incredulous eyes upon the lieutenant.1926, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Mad King. From the entry et tu, Brute
• Washington now has a woman lieutenant of police.1920 June 14, Brooklyn Daily Eagle, volume 80, number 165, New York, N.Y., page 1. From the entry lieutenantess
• Gabbard, a lieutenant colonel in the Army Reserve who served in Iraq, has been a longtime critic of the foreign policy establishment.2024 November 13, Julian E. Barnes, “Trump Chooses Tulsi Gabbard for Director of National Intelligence”, in The New York Times. From the entry gabbard
• They were lieutenants and called “sir.”2017, John R. Oreskovich, SCUMBAG: The Education of an American Officer, page 40. From the entry tac
• Without any waste of time, he deranked all the officers of the Fifty-first Brigade from the rank of major to the rank of lieutenant.2010, Obi N. Ignatius Ebbe, Broken Back Axle: Unspeakable Events in Biafra, →ISBN, page 139. From the entry derank
• That summer and fall the Army organized twenty-five regiments of volunteers, including two black regiments, which would have all-black captains and lieutenants.2007 April 30, Edward M. Coffman, The Regulars: The American Army, 1898-1941, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 16. From the entry volunteer
• After everyone had obeyed his commands, the lieutenant motioned for two medics that now appeared to enter the room and attend to Dr.2006, Paul Garber, Newton's Force, page 256. From the entry butterfly
• The lieutenant consulted the patrol reports.2005, P. T. Deutermann, The Cat Dancers, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 57. From the entry f
• The lieutenant gave him twenty strokes of the knout and stuck him in a cage for a few days till the snow was ankle deep.2005, James Meek, The People's Act of Love, Canongate, published 2006, page 193. From the entry knout
• Thus the governor was able to take charge of his party, win the primary for himself and his lieutenant governor, and control the underticket.1998, Sarah McCally Morehouse, The Governor as Party Leader: Campaigning and Governing, page 157. From the entry underticket
• My lieutenant was my bitterest opponent.1959 February, Didgeon, “Arrow in the Air”, in Mattachine Review, San Francisco: Mattachine Society, →ISSN, page 6. From the entry sonuvvabitch

Meaning of lieutenant

1. noun In the US Army, Air Force and Marines, holding the rank above second lieutenant and below captain. Both ranks may be referred to as "lieutenant" or as the complete forms of the ranks.
2. noun A naval officer whose rank is above that of ensign in the United States Navy and below that of a lieutenant commander. There are two ranks of lieutenant: lieutenant junior grade and lieutenant.
3. noun A commissioned officer in the United States Coast Guard, Public Health Service, or National Atmospheric and Oceanic Administration whose rank is above that of ensign and below lieutenant commander. There are two ranks of lieutenant: lieutenant junior grade and lieutenant.

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How do you use lieutenant in a sentence?

Lieutenant is used as a noun and adjective. For example: “His lieutenants hired a team of miners to help spring him.”

What is a short sentence with lieutenant?

“My lieutenant was my bitterest opponent.”

What does lieutenant mean?

Lieutenant means in the US Army, Air Force and Marines, holding the rank above second lieutenant and below captain. Both ranks may be referred to as "lieutenant" or as the complete forms of the ranks.