How to Use second lieutenant in a Sentence

second lieutenant

noun

• Rapone is, as of this writing, a second lieutenant in the US Army.
  — Christine M. Flowers, Philly.com, 29 Sep. 2017
• In the early days, all new members came in with the rank of second lieutenant.
  — George Dohrmann, SI.com, 17 Jan. 2018
• Marines in the field knew to be dubious of new young second lieutenants like Mueller.
  — Garrett M. Graff, WIRED, 15 May 2018
• He had just been commissioned as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army.
  — Washington Post, 17 Oct. 2017
• Find a Grave shows Ross was from Indiana and died at age 28 as a second lieutenant.
  — Krista Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 27 May 2022
• At that time he was commissioned a second lieutenant and served in the U.S. Army until 1981.
  — Kevin Dayhoff, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 14 Sep. 2019
• Martin earned his wings in 1944 and was commissioned a second lieutenant, then flew with a squadron based in Italy.
  — al, 7 Nov. 2019
• The now three-star general was commissioned as a second lieutenant and rose through the ranks.
  — Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 6 Sep. 2019
• There’s the photo of him and his three brothers, all in uniform, on the day in 1983 when he was promoted to second lieutenant.
  — Samantha Schmidt, Washington Post, 12 May 2022
• Wilkerson passed his flight test in 1946, earning his wings and a rank of second lieutenant.
  — Alexandra Kukulka Chicago Tribune (tns), al, 3 Mar. 2023
• In the same year, Gabbard was commissioned as a second lieutenant.
  — Nataly Pak, ABC News, 19 Mar. 2020
• Cianci was a second lieutenant in the Army, stationed at Fort Devens, and wearing his dress blues.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 20 Oct. 2019
• Phillips is on track to graduate from West Point in May 2026, to which she will be commissioned as a second lieutenant.
  — Alex Thomas, Arkansas Online, 23 Jan. 2023
• Ramos held every rank in the Philippine army from second lieutenant to commander-in-chief.
  — Reuters, CNN, 31 July 2022
• In 1999, she was also commissioned as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps.
  — Jourdan Bennett-Begaye, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Aug. 2022
• The jury consisted of two men and two women ranging in rank from colonel to second lieutenant.
  — Sig Christenson, ExpressNews.com, 19 Aug. 2020
• In 1954, after the founding of the state of Israel, he was drafted into the Israeli Defense Forces as a second lieutenant.
  — Robert D. Hershey Jr., New York Times, 27 Mar. 2024
• Collins was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army shortly before his death.
  — Washington Post, 6 June 2019
• And Cheap, who’d initially served as Anson’s second lieutenant, was now his right-hand man.
  — David Grann, The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2023
• This is the story: There was a brand-new second lieutenant who was very ambitious and wanted to be a general.
  — Chris Morris, Fortune, 18 Oct. 2021
• About a year later he was promoted to second lieutenant, and less than a year after that he was killed during his fifth mission of the war.
  — Krista Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 27 May 2022
• He had also been commissioned into the U.S. Army as a second lieutenant.
  — Washington Post, 14 Jan. 2021
• Afterward, she was commissioned in the Army as a second lieutenant.
  — Adam Carlson, PEOPLE.com, 30 July 2019
• Chet, a second lieutenant in the 297th combat engineers, landed the next morning.
  — Jane Ford-Stewart, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5 July 2018
• Steve Hoover being promoted from sergeant as our second lieutenant (with Lt.
  — Brian Lisik/special To Cleveland.com, cleveland.com, 3 Apr. 2018
• By 1917, he was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Army Officer Reserve Corps.
  — Donna Reiner, azcentral, 15 Feb. 2020
• His bid backfired when he was posted as a second lieutenant to a combat outpost south of Algiers, the capital.
  — Bob Drogin, Washington Post, 13 Dec. 2023
• My father, for instance, held a junior rank as a priest, roughly equivalent to that of a second lieutenant in the military.
  — Haruki Murakami, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2019
• The gunman, a second lieutenant, was fatally shot by a sheriff's deputy responding to the attack.
  — John Bacon, USA TODAY, 12 Jan. 2020
• The graduates receive commissions as Navy ensigns or second lieutenants in the Marine Corps and serve at least five years.
  — Jeff Barker, baltimoresun.com, 25 May 2018

Last Updated: 8 Aug 2024