Example sentences for: colonel

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

  • Intelligence clearly linked the bombing to Libya's Colonel Muammar Qadhafi.

  • The hairpin turns from farce to melodrama, from satire to bathos, are fresh and deftly navigated, but almost every one of the underlying attitudes is smug and easy: from the corporate flunky named "Brad" to the interchangeable gay neighbors (they're both called "Jim") to the brutally homophobic patriarch next door, an ex-Marine colonel (Chris Cooper) who has reduced his wife (the normally exuberant Allison Janney) to a catatonic mummy and his son, Ricky (Bentley), to a life of subterranean deception.

  • At 9:59, an Air Force lieutenant colonel working in the White House Military Office joined the conference and stated he had just talked to Deputy National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley.

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

  • 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.”


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