How to Use colonel in a Sentence

colonel

noun

• He retired as a colonel in the air force.
• The agency said a colonel who was on the scene with the soldier at the time was also charged.
  — Washington Post, 22 Nov. 2019
• The pilot, who’d retired as a colonel, looked comfortable in his new suit.
  — Matt Farwell, The New Republic, 6 Dec. 2019
• McKeon resigned, and Gilpin was sworn in as colonel the following week.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 7 Nov. 2019
• The colonel is an Iraq War veteran who received a Purple Heart after being injured by a roadside bomb.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 19 Nov. 2019
• The sergeant sends the duo on a special mission: to cross the former front lines, now abandoned by German forces, and take a letter to a colonel who’s with his troops at a new forward position.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 7 Jan. 2020
• On one recent day, the ceremony was for a retired colonel with more than 30 years of active duty service, including Vietnam.
  — Steve Hartman, CBS News, 15 Nov. 2019
• In fact, her father, the colonel, brought in the first of their bichons.
  — Washington Post, 12 June 2021
• Thu’s father had been a colonel in the Vietnamese army.
  — Katie C Reilly, ELLE, 27 July 2023
• The colonel had led some of the forces that cut straight across Gaza to the Mediterranean shore in the first days of the ground invasion.
  — Steve Hendrix, Washington Post, 19 Nov. 2023
• At one point, Yefremov said the colonel shot the prisoner in the arm and leg, breaking the bone.
  — Patrick Reevell, ABC News, 5 Feb. 2023
• Thacker retired from the Air Force as a full colonel in 1970.
  — Star Tribune, 26 Dec. 2020
• Just the day before, the NSB colonel and his team had scrapped the postal delivery plan.
  — Andy Greenberg, WIRED, 22 Nov. 2022
• The Princess of Wales, 42, is the honorary colonel of the Irish Guards, which are trooping its flag at the parade this year.
  — Stephanie Petit, Peoplemag, 4 June 2024
• Graham retired from the Air Force Reserves at the rank of colonel in 2015.
  — Mica Soellner, Washington Examiner, 14 Jan. 2021
• Those leaders can range from a staff sergeant to a colonel, Holland said.
  — Rose L. Thayer, Anchorage Daily News, 28 July 2022
• Since then, the Air Force colonel flew to the space station on a Russian Soyuz rocket.
  — Washington Post, 11 Nov. 2020
• The attempt failed when a troops led by a colonel named Robert E. Lee captured Brown and the others.
  — Terry Pluto, cleveland, 16 Jan. 2021
• The colonel was to pass the weapons to other agents to carry out the assault, the Ukrainian statement said.
  — Maria Varenikova, New York Times, 7 May 2024
• Princess Kate is the honorary colonel of the Irish Guards, which is presenting its flag this year.
  — Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 15 June 2024
• His father retired as a colonel in the U.S. Marine Corps.
  — Desiree Stennett, Orlando Sentinel, 16 Sep. 2022
• Now Miles has returned, sort of, in the form of a Na’vi whose mind is infused with the late colonel’s memories.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 16 Dec. 2022
• The colonel’s death had brought many members of the Sanjari family’s tribe to their home to mourn.
  — New York Times, 18 Dec. 2021
• The official said one of the colonel's bodyguards was wounded in the attack.
  — Rahim Faiez, Star Tribune, 31 Mar. 2021
• In exchange, the city wanted 10% of the take, which the colonel said was impossible.
  — Los Angeles Times, 18 May 2021
• The Queen's only daughter, Princess Anne, is a royal colonel.
  — Emily Burack, Town & Country, 2 June 2022
• The green itself in Kate's outfit is symbolic and serves as an homage to the Irish Guards, of which Kate is colonel.
  — Alyssa Bailey, ELLE, 17 June 2023
• Wenstrup is a colonel in the U.S. Army Reserve and has served as a combat surgeon.
  — Scott Wartman, The Enquirer, 13 July 2020
• Lucía Gutiérrez, a Spanish Civil Guard colonel, leaves her aged mother and daughter at home.
  — John Hopewell, Variety, 23 Sep. 2024
• Hughes, her son, Glenn, in tow, came from Japan as a housekeeper for a military colonel who was transferred to Los Alamitos.
  — Laylan Connelly, Orange County Register, 1 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Dec 2024