How to Use commander in a Sentence

commander

noun

• Ramirez was the second SEAL team commander to die in about a year.
  — Danielle Wallace, Fox News, 22 Dec. 2022
• Axis commanders were now aware of the danger of British raiders from the desert.
  — Robert D. McFadden, New York Times, 4 Jan. 2024
• The commander looked pleased with himself about the crowd control.
  — Anand Gopal, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2024
• The commander who was removed had not been seen in public for months.
  — Nectar Gan, CNN, 15 Sep. 2023
• At the end of the class, every leader is required to write a letter to the new commander of that army next year.
  — Eric Adler, Kansas City Star, 25 Jan. 2024
• Three more of the group’s key commanders were killed in subsequent strikes this past week.
  — Isabel Kershner, New York Times, 13 May 2023
• Shawn LaFleur, post commander of Tattler Post 973, led the event.
  — Olivia Alexander, Chicago Tribune, 29 May 2023
• In a basement a few miles from the house, commanders from the 251st Battalion studied the drone feed.
  — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2023
• The tank's commander jokes that 80% of any tanker’s life is spent keeping his armored beast alive.
  — Scott Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Mar. 2023
• The commander of the jail at that time and two other staff members were charged and convicted.
  — Vanessa Swales, Journal Sentinel, 13 June 2024
• Israel took out several Hamas and Hezbollah commanders in the first six months of the war.
  — Barak Ravid, Axios, 20 Oct. 2024
• The regiment’s deputy commander was killed in the attack, the ministry said.
  — Ann M. Simmons and Jared Malsin, WSJ, 4 Jan. 2023
• Baldwin later removed the commander of the Guard’s air side, Maj.
  — Paul Pringlestaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 7 Jan. 2023
• Bowen, the mission commander, is the only one of the four who has previously flown to space.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Mar. 2023
• Ringing the doorbell there, Carter summoned the commander, who filled in Gandhi on the scourge of fentanyl.
  — Doug Smith, Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2023
• The second test had the operator take on the role of a section commander.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 5 Apr. 2023
• The commander said there is evidence that at least one of the victims returned fire at the assailants.
  — Peter Hermann, Washington Post, 27 Dec. 2022
• More than 100 commanders have been killed, the official said.
  — Lior Soroka, Washington Post, 23 Jan. 2024
• If the lawyers deem a strike unlawful, field commanders must cancel it.
  — Steven Erlanger, New York Times, 13 Dec. 2023
• Dealey, the sub’s commander, was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor and a Silver Star.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 May 2024
• The former commander of the Union Army, Grant started riding and training horses in his youth.
  — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Mar. 2023
• The brigade commander, Col. Mikhail Gudkov, was wounded.
  — David Axe, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2024
• Over the years, there has been some limited coverage of the commander's lock program.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 22 Jan. 2024
• Last week, an Israeli airstrike on a car killed three senior police commanders in Rafah.
  — Wafaa Shurafa and Bassem Mroue The Associated Press, arkansasonline.com, 18 Feb. 2024
• The commander of the hospital, a brigadier general, hovered two paces behind the body.
  — Elliot Ackerman, WIRED, 5 Feb. 2024
• Israeli airstrikes in Gaza killed a fourth militant commander, bringing the death toll to 25 in this latest round of fighting.
  — Fares Akram and Tia Goldenberg, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 May 2023
• Israeli troops have stayed out of the tunnels in the north, commanders say, opting to blow up the entrances to prevent Hamas from using them to mount ambushes.
  — Eric Sylvers, WSJ, 23 Nov. 2023
• The Israeli military said its airstrikes in Gaza killed a Hamas commander who led one of last weekend’s massacres of civilians.
  — WSJ, 16 Oct. 2023
• Israel accuses the group of planning attacks and since the flare-up began on Tuesday has killed six of its commanders.
  — Richard Allen Greene, CNN, 13 May 2023
• Or whether the military commanders in Gaza had, in a sense, mounted a coup d’etat against their own leadership in exile, who were more moderate, so to speak, and more pragmatic.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 10 Nov 2024