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.

  • One admiral declares that he was literally thus cradled, under the breast of a gun-carriage.”

  • British Admiral Rodney, with 37 ships and a crucial superiority in cannon (3,012 to 2,246 French), struck off Les Saintes.

  • That inquiry into the failure of U.S. intelligence to anticipate India's nuclear tests, first tipped last week by the Wall Street Journal , has materialized on the front at USAT and the NYT , and inside at the WP . The findings by retired admiral David Jeremiah and his team: the intelligence community so ignored the new Indian government's statements on nuclear policy that only one U.S. analyst was assigned to examine satellite photos of India's test site.

  • Of interest, too, is Nelson’s Anchorage, where Admiral Nelson’s body is said to have been brought in a barrel of rum after the Battle of Trafalgar on 21 October 1805, and the nearby 100-ton Victorian super-gun, the largest gun of its type in the world.


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