How to Use colonel in a Sentence

colonel

noun

• He retired as a colonel in the air force.
• 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
• Just the day before, the NSB colonel and his team had scrapped the postal delivery plan.
  — Andy Greenberg, WIRED, 22 Nov. 2022
• Those leaders can range from a staff sergeant to a colonel, Holland said.
  — Rose L. Thayer, Anchorage Daily News, 28 July 2022
• 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 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
• Once the agreement is in place, extradition could take between a day and a week, the colonel said.
  — Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 14 May 2023
• Specifically trained to hit the ground fighting, when the call came, the colonel said his soldiers were ready.
  — CBS News, 23 Oct. 2022
• Tom Parker was a Dutch guy who passed himself off as a Southern colonel.
  — David Marchese, New York Times, 10 June 2022
• When Austin’s onstage at the ballroom, down in the audience, the colonel (Hanks) is signing the contract for him for the next five years.
  — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 5 Dec. 2022
• Meanwhile, the Princess of Wales' green garb and Cartier brooch are additional nods to her role as colonel of the Irish guards.
  — Glamour, 17 June 2023
• The Greek colonel, Kethros, stands for a misguided vision of law and order, fueled by anger, guilt, and fear of change.
  — Ursula Lindsey, The New York Review of Books, 6 July 2022
• But the characters—the brave and innocent children, the bloodhound of a colonel—remain rather flat archetypes.
  — Ursula Lindsey, The New York Review of Books, 6 July 2022
• Notable, too, was that no copy was given to the colonel over the Utah Highway Patrol at the time, Anderson said.
  — Courtney Tanner, The Salt Lake Tribune, 6 Dec. 2022
• The colonel had served in the British army before the war but sided with the Americans when the revolution began.
  — Claire Bellerjeau and Tiffany Yecke Brooks, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 May 2022
• And in Japan, the colonel comes to dinner with KFC fried chicken as a traditional merry meal.
  — Lizz Schumer, Good Housekeeping, 11 Nov. 2022
• Burnett was a colonel in the Kentucky Infantry in the Confederate army.
  — Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 29 Nov. 2023
• James Warren, now a colonel, and the other officers, retold the story.
  — Ko Lyn Cheang, The Indianapolis Star, 30 Mar. 2022
• Her father was a colonel in the Army National Guard, and her mother was a homemaker.
  — Michael S. Rosenwald, BostonGlobe.com, 23 June 2023
• The prosecutors identified the colonel as Hsiang Te-en.
  — Reuters, CNN, 22 Nov. 2022
• Canada’s Hansen has never been to space but served as a fighter pilot and colonel in the Canadian Armed Forces.
  — Greg Wehner, Fox News, 3 Apr. 2023
• General Cavoli’s father served in the Army 32 years, retiring as a colonel.
  — Jennifer Griffin, Fox News, 2 July 2022
• Weaver will assume the rank of colonel during a swearing-in ceremony Friday at the State House.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 28 Apr. 2022
• Heg was an abolitionist and Union Army colonel during the Civil War.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 28 Oct. 2022
• After the comments, Kadyrov announced that Putin had promoted the Chechen to the rank of colonel general.
  — Catherine Belton, Washington Post, 7 Oct. 2022
• The parade marks Kate's second outing with the Irish Guards since becoming colonel of the regiment.
  — Rosa Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 17 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024