Example sentences for: colonel

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

  • At its base is a swashbuckling statue by William Wetmore Storey of American Colonel Prescott, who gave the famous order: “Don’t fire ’til you see the whites of their eyes.”

  • All her brothers are cops, and her dad is such an overwhelming cop of a cop they made him a colonel.

  • Watts was recently on the receiving end of this assessment from his father: "A black man voting for the Republicans makes about as much sense as a chicken voting for Colonel Sanders."

  • Repeatedly between 10:14 and 10:19, a lieutenant colonel at the White House relayed to the NMCC that the Vice President had confirmed fighters were cleared to engage inbound aircraft if they could verify that the aircraft was hijacked.

  • Lieutenant-Colonel Andrew Deveaux, a loyalist from South Carolina, sailed from Florida with six ships, picked up men and fishing boats at Harbour Island and Eleuthera, and “invaded” Nassau.


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