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Example sentences for "lieutenants"

Lexicographically close words:
lieue; lieues; lieutenancies; lieutenancy; lieutenant; lieux; lieve; lieved; liever; lieves
  1. His lieutenants and officials were cared for in proportion.

  2. As for their quality, "One man out of a merchant ship is better than three the lieutenants get in town.

  3. Lieutenants received their usual service pay, and for subsistence 3s.

  4. He at once dispatched his 1st and 2nd lieutenants with a contingent of twenty-five men and several petty officers, to rout them out and take them.

  5. Tramping the riverside at Hull one day in search of a ship, he accidentally met one of the lieutenants employed in the local impress service, and mistaking him for the master of a Greenland ship, stepped up to him and asked him for a berth.

  6. For Edinburgh and Leith twenty-one men, directed by a captain, two lieutenants and four midshipmen, were considered none too many.

  7. There was none of his lieutenants who, in his position, could not have made the insurrection to some extent formidable.

  8. One of O'Connell's lieutenants in the Catholic Association, of which he wrote a history.

  9. The boats, which had in the meantime kept off from the ship, under the command of the lieutenants and other officers, were called up one by one.

  10. After supper we thankfully turned in--the captain politely giving his berth to Boxall, while two of the lieutenants begged that Halliday and I would occupy theirs.

  11. Parthōs=: Lucius Verus nominally had the guidance of the war, but it was carried on by his lieutenants while he lingered in Antioch.

  12. Aurunculēius (Cotta), one of Caesar’s lieutenants in Gaul.

  13. The prince replied: "If, my lord, I am to make all my brave officers admirals, I should have no captains or lieutenants in my service.

  14. To any one in doubt of the essential kinship between the average lieutenants of the English-speaking navies, we would beg to suggest a careful perusal of the foregoing letter.

  15. For the parts which they played on this occasion, Lieutenants Crutchley, Drummond, and Bourke each received the Victoria Cross.

  16. Every one was well aware that the defeat and death of Apollonius was not only a disgrace that Antiochus and his lieutenants were bound to avenge, but a disaster that had to be repaired.

  17. The effort to wipe out the disgrace of the two defeats and to restore the Greek supremacy was not long delayed; and when it was made, it was made with all the force which the lieutenants of Antiochus could command.

  18. Presently I heard the voice of one of our lieutenants speaking up above, and called out to him to know how he’d come off.

  19. One of our lieutenants was the first victim.

  20. Carey, our senior mid, was appointed to that ship, and two sub-lieutenants came to us in his stead.

  21. Next forenoon one of our lieutenants told us that two of our number were to go to an armoured liner which was lying in the harbour, and suggested that we should draw lots to determine which of us it should be.

  22. A new navigator and two Royal Naval Reserve lieutenants joined that night, and their arrival completed our full complement of officers.

  23. Lieutenants Lawson and Cherry fell back slowly with their companies dismounted and fighting all the way, every man doing his duty.

  24. He failed to open communication with Coronado, but buried some letters under a cross, which one of that leader’s lieutenants subsequently found.

  25. Essex and his lieutenants had shown little vigor and ability in the conduct of military operations.

  26. The general's chief lieutenants were suddenly set upon and slain; then the murderers rushed to Wallenstein's own apartments.

  27. The lieutenants are to be subordinate to you and obey you in everything.

  28. I and my lieutenants saw all their manoeuvres through a hole over the door.

  29. Lieutenants Harris and Laurie were severely wounded, and 62 men were wounded.

  30. When the lieutenants went on board they received instructions for the disposition of the respective ships to which they belonged for the following day.

  31. In the Right Attack of the Royal Artillery Siege Train, Commissary Hayter and 5 men were killed; Captain Fitzroy, Lieutenants Champion and Tyler, and 34 men were wounded.

  32. In the 90th, Captain Preston and Lieutenants Swift and Wilmer were killed; only 3 men were killed.

  33. Pigott, and 90 men severely; Captains Perrin and Vaughan, Lieutenants Rous, Graham, and Haydock and 35 men slightly wounded.

  34. Captains Mauleverer and Beresford, Lieutenants Lambert, Hopton, Scott, and Ensign Walker were wounded severely.

  35. At Chippenham the Deputye Lieutenants mett to see the order of the militia, but quales D: Lieutenants tales officiarii.

  36. So Captain Romer and his lieutenants went to dine with the worthy Governor Senhor Francisco Alfonso Toledo Bignoso Letotti, while Yoosoof returned to the creek to carry out his deep-laid plans.

  37. They were under the command of Lieutenants Small and Lindsay respectively.

  38. There is an unwritten law that all Lord-Lieutenants of Ireland must be non-political in thought and word, if not in deed, and the rule is always applied with rigour in the case of a Liberal viceroy.

  39. The skipper has his sailing orders, and he'll sail whether he's shy two pilot lieutenants or not.

  40. Dyck briefly told how the lieutenants were made, and how he himself had been enormously indebted to Greenock, the master of the ship, and all the subordinate officers.

  41. A second-rate ship like the Ariadne carried eighteen midshipmen; and as six lieutenants were appointed from them, only twelve remained.

  42. The old lieutenants had gone, but midshipmen, who in any case were trained, had taken their places.

  43. Therefore I'll instruct the lieutenants to spread-eagle every midshipman for twelve hours.

  44. It was a great thing making the new lieutenants from the midshipmen.

  45. In his note-book, under date of the 18th, Gautier adds the names of Second-Lieutenants de Blois and de Roussille as among the wounded.

  46. To her lieutenants she is a charming companion, a wise leader.

  47. Her lieutenants share her confidence, and work to the full.

  48. The officers who served as lieutenants with Kate Lee give us glimpses of the life she lived in the privacy of her quarters.

  49. Kate Lee's lieutenants have lively memories of her methods and enthusiasm in conducting the annual Self-Denial Appeals.

  50. Another of her lieutenants tells that, during one Self-Denial week, a friend, thinking that the officers might be depriving themselves of nourishing food, left a basket packed with fresh goodies on the doorstep.


  51. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lieutenants" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.