Example sentences for: lieutenants

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

  • In July 1999, President Clinton authorized the CIA to work with several governments to capture Bin Ladin, and extended the scope of efforts to Bin Ladin's principal lieutenants.

  • If impeachment hearings do occur, it will be because Gingrich and his lieutenants favor them, not because Barr does.

  • But enough has been said to show that the Southern Christian Leadership Conference was a cult of personality in which King's lieutenants covered up his sexual peccadilloes and vied obscenely for his attention and the chance to succeed him in the public eye.

  • Nixon's presidency limped to its denouement by way of a grim paradox: His lieutenants were soon suspected of conducting illicit operations of such high stakes and complexity that only a senior official would have supervised them.

  • The strike's purpose was to kill Bin Ladin and his chief lieutenants.


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