How to Use corporal in a Sentence

corporal

1 of 2 noun
  • As the corporal tried to help him out and give him water, the man went limp.
    Mirzahussain Sadid, ProPublica, 5 Apr. 2022
  • The corporal, did alert police about the crash and was injury-free.
    Rayna Reid Rayford, Essence, 26 Oct. 2023
  • Eleven hours and 37 minutes into his shift, the corporal was ready for his first traffic stop of the day.
    Emily Davies, BostonGlobe.com, 2 June 2022
  • The video shows Hall raising his hands after a corporal fired the initial shots, which missed him.
    NBC News, 19 Nov. 2021
  • He was never deployed and held the rank of corporal at the end of his service, an Army spokesman said in an email on Friday.
    Dallas News, 25 Feb. 2022
  • The deputy, who is a K-9 corporal, pursued Linder on a nearly 7-minute long chase.
    Joe Mario Pedersen, orlandosentinel.com, 22 June 2021
  • Six years later, he was sworn in as corporal, then sergeant three years after than.
    Pioneer Press, Chicago Tribune, 14 Feb. 2023
  • Pursued by the military police, there is an episode in which the team helps an army corporal.
    Itxu Díaz, National Review, 16 May 2021
  • Lavern and Marvette Meggett, two daughters whom Mrs. Meggett refers to as the general and the corporal, kept their mother and the project on track.
    New York Times, 9 May 2022
  • As a reserve, he wasn’t paid for his duty as a reserve corporal.
    Les Zaitz, oregonlive, 26 Jan. 2023
  • Donald Lee, a corporal with the mental health unit, is Rindr’s handler.
    Annie Blanks, San Antonio Express-News, 21 Oct. 2021
  • Here there are no good, wise old Gandalfs, and the hero is just as likely to be a gambling, lazy corporal as a knight in shining armor.
    Erik Kain, Forbes, 6 Sep. 2021
  • One Montgomery officer was struck in the leg and another, a corporal, was shot in the torso.
    Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al, 11 May 2021
  • Hall’s hands stayed above his head as the corporal and another trooper fired several more shots.
    NBC News, 19 Nov. 2021
  • The corporal, who alerted police to the collision, was not injured.
    Jon Schuppe, NBC News, 25 Oct. 2023
  • Daniel Debono, a 32-year-old corporal, has been suspended without pay amid the case, said Graveline.
    Darcie Moran, Detroit Free Press, 6 Dec. 2020
  • The corporal, who has resigned from the department, declined to comment.
    Justin Jouvenal, Washington Post, 11 Aug. 2022
  • He was discharged in 1946 with the rank of corporal; his decorations included the Bronze Star with three battle stars.
    Frederick N. Rasmussen, baltimoresun.com, 9 Aug. 2020
  • The senior corporal had been with the department since 2005 and was assigned to the Northeast patrol division.
    Dallas News, 9 Feb. 2022
  • About a decade ago, her husband was a corporal in the Army stationed in Vicenza, Italy, and her young son and daughter were suffering from eczema and chronic dry skin.
    New York Times, 13 Feb. 2021
  • Hall’s hands stayed above his head as a corporal and another trooper fired several more shots.
    NBC News, 30 Mar. 2022
  • The corporal also noted the phone in Dawson’s pocket had GPS routing him to hotels near the interstate.
    Danielle Wallace, Fox News, 1 Dec. 2022
  • Before he was dismissed from his job, Panya served as a corporal, a low rung in the police hierarchy.
    Hannah Beech, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Oct. 2022
  • Heims was a senior corporal with the Southeast Patrol Division who had been with the department since 2013.
    Dallas News, 28 Nov. 2022
  • Before he was dismissed from his job, Mr. Panya served as a corporal, a low rung in the police hierarchy.
    Ryn Jirenuwat, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2022
  • During one of these closures, a Marine corporal saw a heavyset man in his late 20s pinned against a retaining wall, screaming.
    Mirzahussain Sadid, ProPublica, 5 Apr. 2022
  • Brown, who’s from Woodlawn, is a corporal with the Bladensburg Police Department.
    Mckenna Oxenden, baltimoresun.com, 22 Apr. 2021
  • When Britain withdrew its troops from the island a few months later, a Scottish corporal and several others chose to stay behind.
    Sasha Chapman, Discover Magazine, 20 Apr. 2023
  • The Southlake officers involved in the shooting were a captain, a sergeant, a corporal and an officer, Brandon said.
    Dallas News, 17 Oct. 2022
  • While there, he was promoted to corporal and received the paperwork for the Purple Heart, yet never received the official medal until it was sent to him in the mail 40 years later.
    Ellie Willard, The Arizona Republic, 19 Mar. 2023
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corporal

2 of 2 adjective
  • But Matt pled guilty to the corporal injury on a spouse charge.
    The Foretold Team, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2023
  • The first arrest was for corporal injury on a current or former spouse, People reported.
    Brian Niemietz New York Daily News (tns), al, 25 Apr. 2023
  • He was released from custody on a charge of inflicting corporal injury on a spouse or cohabitant.
    Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 2 Feb. 2021
  • Romo was out on bail after being charged in December with two felony counts of corporal injury on a spouse and false imprisonment, along with misdemeanors.
    Amanda Lee Myers, USA TODAY, 22 Mar. 2023
  • The felony charge of inflicting corporal injury on a spouse was reduced to misdemeanor domestic battery.
    Nardine Saad, Los Angeles Times, 18 Aug. 2022
  • He is charged with one felony count of domestic battery with corporal injury and one felony count of false imprisonment by menace, violence, fraud, and/or deceit.
    Vulture, 12 Jan. 2023
  • Roiland, 42, was charged with a felony count of domestic battery with corporal injury and a felony count of false imprisonment by menace, violence, fraud and/or deceit.
    Doha Madani, NBC News, 25 Jan. 2023
  • A year later, Brown was convicted in Solano County of inflicting corporal injury on Cullom, as well as on gun and drug charges related to marijuana sales, records show.
    Michael Williams, SFChronicle.com, 3 Nov. 2020
  • In Victorian times, hands were accorded cult-like status, viewed as the corporal embodiment of loveliness, virtue, and class.
    Lauren Mechling, Town & Country, 5 Mar. 2022
  • Roiland had faced one count of domestic battery with corporal injury and one count of false imprisonment by menace, violence, fraud and deceit.
    Jonah Valdez Los Angeles Times (tns), al, 23 Mar. 2023
  • In her memoir The Intruders, Montandon attributes a series of hauntings that culminated in a corporal tragedy to the bizarre behavior of a disgruntled tarot card reader who may have cursed the apartment the night of that fateful party.
    Hadley Mendelsohn, House Beautiful, 22 June 2023
  • Carlson was arrested later that evening for a felony of domestic violence with corporal injuries.
    Charmaine Patterson, PEOPLE.com, 9 Mar. 2022
  • Roiland, 42, was charged in Orange County, Calif., with one felony count of domestic battery with corporal injury and one felony count of false imprisonment by menace, violence, fraud and/or deceit.
    Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 12 Jan. 2023
  • Thao was initially charged with murder, but in April pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter and corporal injury to a spouse, along with an allegation of personally using a firearm.
    City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 June 2021
  • According to Bitensky, corporal violence benefits the punisher more than the child.
    Lydia Wang, refinery29.com, 5 May 2021
  • Examples of those captured in the operations, which spanned 24 cities, include a Mexican man with convictions for inflicting corporal injury to a spouse and willful cruelty to a child as well as two convictions for DUI.
    Adam Shaw, Fox News, 1 Sep. 2020
  • Roiland appeared in court in January for a pre-trial hearing after he was charged with one felony count of domestic battery with corporal injury and one felony count of false imprisonment by menace, violence, fraud and/or deceit.
    Zack Sharf, Variety, 22 Mar. 2023
  • In December, Romo was charged with two felonies — corporal injury on a spouse or cohabitant and false imprisonment — as well as misdemeanor counts of resisting arrest and battery, Fox11 reports, citing court records.
    Nicole Acosta, Peoplemag, 22 Mar. 2023
  • In January, authorities arrested Roiland and charged him with one felony count of domestic battery with corporal injury and one felony count of false imprisonment by menace, violence, fraud, and/or deceit following the incident.
    Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 22 Mar. 2023
  • According to Hollywood producers and manipulative liberals, Jim Crow, lynching, and corporal violation have not ended since slavery.
    Armond White, National Review, 26 May 2021
  • But Matt pled guilty to the corporal injury on a spouse charge.
    The Foretold Team, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2023
  • The first arrest was for corporal injury on a current or former spouse, People reported.
    Brian Niemietz New York Daily News (tns), al, 25 Apr. 2023
  • He was released from custody on a charge of inflicting corporal injury on a spouse or cohabitant.
    Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 2 Feb. 2021
  • Romo was out on bail after being charged in December with two felony counts of corporal injury on a spouse and false imprisonment, along with misdemeanors.
    Amanda Lee Myers, USA TODAY, 22 Mar. 2023
  • The felony charge of inflicting corporal injury on a spouse was reduced to misdemeanor domestic battery.
    Nardine Saad, Los Angeles Times, 18 Aug. 2022
  • He is charged with one felony count of domestic battery with corporal injury and one felony count of false imprisonment by menace, violence, fraud, and/or deceit.
    Vulture, 12 Jan. 2023
  • Roiland, 42, was charged with a felony count of domestic battery with corporal injury and a felony count of false imprisonment by menace, violence, fraud and/or deceit.
    Doha Madani, NBC News, 25 Jan. 2023
  • A year later, Brown was convicted in Solano County of inflicting corporal injury on Cullom, as well as on gun and drug charges related to marijuana sales, records show.
    Michael Williams, SFChronicle.com, 3 Nov. 2020
  • In Victorian times, hands were accorded cult-like status, viewed as the corporal embodiment of loveliness, virtue, and class.
    Lauren Mechling, Town & Country, 5 Mar. 2022
  • Roiland had faced one count of domestic battery with corporal injury and one count of false imprisonment by menace, violence, fraud and deceit.
    Jonah Valdez Los Angeles Times (tns), al, 23 Mar. 2023

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