Example sentences for: colonels

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

  • explained his vision of how the Defense Department could cut 1.4 percent from its $260 billion budget: "Instead of having two colonels to hold your paper, you'll have only one major."

  • No "left-wing colonels" have yet appeared to help the opposition, at least not in public.

  • Just off the main road stands the Casa de los Coroneles (House of the Colonels).

  • Much of the island was left in ruins from heavy bombing, but Crete escaped the internal strife of the civil war that raged in mainland Greece (1947–1949) and felt fewer effects of the oppressive ‘rule of the colonels’ (1967–1974) than other Greek communities.

  • During the seven-year “reign of the colonels,” as the succeeding years are known, political parties were dissolved, the press was censored, and left-wing sympathizers were exiled, tortured, and imprisoned.


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