Example sentences for: colonel

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

  • Led by Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser, they drove Farouk into exile and nationalized the Suez Canal.

  • They were based on a confusion of Shakir's identity with that of an Iraqi Fedayeen colonel with a similar name, who was later (in September 2001) in Iraq at the same time Shakir was in police custody in Qatar.

  • Colonel Marr, the battle commander at NEADS, and General Arnold, the CONR commander, both recall that the planes were held on battle stations, as opposed to scrambling, because they might be called on to relieve the Otis fighters over New York City if a refueling tanker was not located, and also because of the general uncertainty of the situation in the sky.

  • This means that if you're a smart young college graduate or a bored lawyer or a retired-at-42 Army colonel who wants to teach in a public school, you can't do so without obtaining credits in education.

  • And a colonel with 26 years' service makes more than $108,000.


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