How to Use commandant in a Sentence

commandant

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  • Among the frozen promotions are for the commandant of the Marines and, later this month, the chair of the joint chiefs of staff.
    — Paul Gattis | Pgattis@al.com, al, 6 Sep. 2023
  • At the best of times, the office of commandant is one of the proudest in the military.
    — New York Times, 31 Dec. 2019
  • Brown returned to the weapons school as its commandant.
    — Tara Copp, BostonGlobe.com, 25 May 2023
  • Karl Streibel had been the commandant of the Trawniki training camp.
    — Debbie Cenziper, Washington Post, 23 Jan. 2020
  • But the new palace commandant said there was no other way.
    — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, National Review, 14 Oct. 2021
  • Among them were the Army secretary and chief of staff, the commandant of the Marine Corps and the top two officers in the Navy.
    — Tom Vanden Brook, USA TODAY, 9 Apr. 2020
  • The father, Rudolf Höss (Christian Friedel), is the camp’s commandant.
    — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Dec. 2023
  • At one of them the station’s commandant emerged from his gatehouse to check out our bikes and took a liking to my fly rod.
    — Nate Matthews, Field & Stream, 7 Dec. 2020
  • The band’s mission is to provide music for the president of the United States and the commandant of the Marine Corps.
    — Emily Sorensen, Pomerado News, 18 Oct. 2019
  • But when the commandant’s job opened in 2015, the Marines had spent nearly two decades in a state of constant deployment.
    — Sam Walker, WSJ, 28 June 2018
  • Our film is about Rudolf Höss, the commandant of Auschwitz, and his family, who built a beautiful life just behind the wall of the camp.
    — Carolyn Giardina, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Dec. 2023
  • The commandant relented, put his pistol back in the holster and walked away.
    — Fox News, 17 Jan. 2023
  • Provocatively, the story came in part from the perspective of the camp commandant.
    — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Jan. 2024
  • Wallace writes, the commandant of the prison offered to let McCain, the son of a top-ranking US naval officer, go.
    — Caroline Houck, Vox, 26 Aug. 2018
  • When the study was shifted to the war college, plans for a foreword by the Army leadership were dropped in favor of one by the war-college commandant.
    — Michael R. Gordon, WSJ, 22 Oct. 2018
  • The system also enabled the commandant to relay messages from his desk to the entire camp.
    — Simon Parkin, Time, 2 Nov. 2022
  • For the unacquainted, a quick description: the movie is about Rudolf Höss, the real-life commandant of Auschwitz, who lived in a home that shared a garden wall with the camp.
    — Longreads, 5 Jan. 2024
  • Greene, later the Marine Corps commandant, wanted Marines in space by 1968.
    — Tom Vanden Brook, USA TODAY, 11 July 2018
  • Marines can appeal any denials to the assistant commandant of the Marine Corps.
    — Lolita C. Baldor, ajc, 14 Jan. 2022
  • The movie tells the story of a Nazi commandant who tries to build a beautiful life for his family next to the Auschwitz concentration camp.
    — Rebecca Aizin, Peoplemag, 18 Dec. 2023
  • There’s just one catch: Her husband is none other than Rudolf Höss, the long-serving commandant of Auschwitz, and their attractive villa looks out over the camp.
    — Giles Harvey, New York Times, 19 Dec. 2023
  • The administrators are, too, including Col. William Wanovich, the commandant of the cadets.
    — Ian Shapira, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2020
  • Marine Corps commandant, Gen. David Berger, is less than pleased.
    — Sébastien Roblin, Popular Mechanics, 16 Mar. 2023
  • The Marines are currently being led by an acting commandant, while the chief of staff of the Army, chief naval officer, and Air Force chief of staff will all leave their positions in the next three months.
    — Mike Brest, Washington Examiner, 1 Aug. 2023
  • Then came a problem: The commandant of Piraeus placed Twain’s ship under quarantine.
    — John J. Miller, National Review, 16 Apr. 2020
  • Rudolf Höss was the Nazi commandant who oversaw the mass killing operations at Auschwitz-Birkenau, having been posted there from 1940 until nearly the end of the war.
    — Andrew Lapin, Sun Sentinel, 3 Jan. 2024
  • The last time the Marine Corps was led by an acting commandant was 1910, according to the Associated Press.
    — USA TODAY, 10 July 2023
  • The assistant commandant of the Marine Corps later also tested positive, and all the chiefs were forced to quarantine at home for at least 10 days.
    — Lolita C. Baldor, Star Tribune, 19 Nov. 2020
  • Jonathan Glazer’s film about an Auschwitz commandant and his family is a steady-state study of the inexplicableness of evil.
    — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Dec. 2023
  • One puzzling discovery was an underground tunnel leading from the commandant’s house to the camp.
    — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Apr. 2020

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