How to Use brigadier general in a Sentence

brigadier general

noun
  • Zolghadr reached the rank of brigadier general in the Guard.
    — CBS News, 24 Mar. 2026
  • When Ferebee climbed down, a brigadier general cornered him.
    — David Perlmutt, Charlotte Observer, 6 Aug. 2025
  • Henderson, 53, was passed over three times for brigadier general.
    — Helene Cooper New York Times, Star Tribune, 4 Mar. 2021
  • Its current boss is a brigadier general with no oil experience.
    — The Economist, 12 July 2019
  • The brigadier general said the facility where the shooting took place was not under his command.
    — Matthew Barakat, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Apr. 2021
  • The commander of the hospital, a brigadier general, hovered two paces behind the body.
    — Elliot Ackerman, WIRED, 5 Feb. 2024
  • Since the spring, the field has been frozen in place, with former Army brigadier general Don Bolduc holding a strong lead.
    — James Pindell, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Sep. 2022
  • He was later moved to the defense ministry and named brigadier general in the Sandinista Army.
    — New York Times, 16 Feb. 2022
  • Hamzah, 41, has held multiple positions within the monarchy and is a brigadier general in the army.
    — Washington Post, 7 Apr. 2021
  • Pike was commissioned in the Confederate army as a brigadier general, but his wartime career lasted less than two years.
    — Gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Pike was commissioned in the Confederate army as a brigadier general, but his wartime career lasted less than two years.
    — Robert Birsel, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Aug. 2025
  • He was quickly promoted to brigadier general, but lost his right arm in battle in June 1862.
    — Daniel Sharfstein, Smithsonian, 23 May 2017
  • In 2005, he was appointed head of Adra Prison and later rose to the rank of brigadier general.
    — Stephan Pechdimaldji, Newsweek, 13 Dec. 2024
  • Inside a black metal cage at the courtroom’s edge, three men waited silently to face the chief judge, a burly brigadier general in the Lebanese Army.
    — Euan Ward, New Yorker, 29 May 2026
  • All four are accused of treason, the ministry said, adding that three brigadier generals and three commanders who were confirmed to have deployed soldiers made up the other six.
    — Stella Kim, NBC News, 6 Dec. 2024
  • Thomas Jefferson named Rogers Clark a brigadier general in 1781.
    — Washington Post, 11 July 2021
  • He was promoted to brigadier general in 1972, one of eight Black Army generals.
    — Trip Gabriel, New York Times, 5 Dec. 2023
  • Across the hall, amid a dozen or so family photos is one of her grandfather, who was a brigadier general in the Confederate Army.
    — Valeriya Safronova, New York Times, 15 Aug. 2019
  • The latter is a brigadier general blacklisted by the United States in 2020.
    — Kevin G. Hall, Miami Herald, 16 Apr. 2025
  • The eagle-eyed West Virginia native is a humorous speaker, and there is nothing shy about the man who rose to become brigadier general.
    — Rob Verger, Popular Science, 8 Dec. 2020
  • Fuller and Harris, a retired brigadier general and cattle producer, would have had to win at least half of the vote outright to avoid the April 7 runoff.
    — The Hill, 11 Mar. 2026
  • Cavazos went on to become the Army's first Hispanic brigadier general in 1976.
    — Tom Vanden Brook, USA TODAY, 3 Jan. 2025
  • All senior officers at the rank of brigadier general and above must attend the meeting, according to the Washington Post.
    — Kathryn Palmer, USA Today, 28 Sep. 2025
  • At one point, after his injuries led Lynch to retire from the Army, a brigadier general tried to reduce Lynch back to a colonel, Bigwood said.
    — Janelle Walker, Elgin Courier-News, 25 Sep. 2017
  • At Shiloh, Rockwell ran into Garfield—then a brigadier general and brigade commander—and the two reconnected.
    — Jason Emerson, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Jan. 2022
  • Lorna Mahlock has been nominated to serve as the first black female brigadier general, the Marine Corps media office said.
    — Sophie Tatum, CNN, 12 Apr. 2018
  • All senior officers above the rank of brigadier general must attend the meeting, according to the Washington Post, which first reported the meeting.
    — Cybele Mayes-Osterman, USA Today, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Harris, a cattle farmer and retired brigadier general, will face an uphill battle to win a majority in the heavily Republican district.
    — Jeff Amy, Los Angeles Times, 11 Mar. 2026
  • Harris, a cattle farmer and retired brigadier general, is likely to face an uphill battle to win a majority in the heavily Republican district.
    — Jeff Amy and Sophie Bates The Associated Press, Arkansas Online, 11 Mar. 2026
  • Loree Sutton is a psychiatrist, retired brigadier general, and combat veteran with nearly 30 years of military service.
    — Loree Sutton, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Oct. 2025

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