Example sentences for: admiral

How can you use “admiral” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The NYT and WP , following up a story in Wednesday's Washington Times , report that a Pentagon admiral has been accused of improperly steering military contracts to the firm owned by the woman he was committing adultery with.

  • I'd give Hatch the Admiral Stockdale Prize in the debate--the prize for having no idea why you're there.

  • In 1409, under a new directive from Emperor Chu Ti to pursue trade in the South Seas and the Indian Ocean, a Chinese fleet of 50 ships headed by Admiral Cheng Ho called in at Melaka.

  • Weaknesses in all-source and strategic analysis were highlighted by a panel, chaired by Admiral David Jeremiah, that critiqued the intelligence community's failure to foresee the nuclear weapons tests by India and Pakistan in 1998, as well as by a 1999 panel, chaired by Donald Rumsfeld, that discussed the community's limited ability to assess the ballistic missile threat to the United States.

  • Mount Rainier is named for Peter Rainier, a British admiral and enemy of the United States who never sailed these waters.


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