How to Use cadet in a Sentence

cadet

noun
  • The cadets were quick to deny these claims.
    — Preston Mizell, FOXNews.com, 29 Jan. 2026
  • Slurp eats the cadet captain’s brains.
    — Jessica M. Goldstein, Vulture, 6 Aug. 2025
  • About 30 cadets stepped out of big vans and at least one wheezed at the stench.
    — Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs, baltimoresun.com, 18 June 2018
  • Sadly, the cadets fell to their deaths, landing on the ship deck.
    — Greg Wehner , Alexis McAdams, FOXNews.com, 18 May 2025
  • One cadet was also expelled around the same time for use of racial slurs.
    — Washington Post, 26 June 2018
  • And cadets were on the hunt for unique pieces to add to their collections.
    — Karissa Waddick, USA Today, 1 July 2026
  • Brown has been a part of the town’s police cadets since eighth grade and rose to the rank of sergeant.
    — Mikaela Porter, Courant Community, 31 May 2018
  • The cadet is now staying with a high school friend in another state.
    — Dave Collins, Hartford Courant, 2 Sep. 2022
  • Those with children who are cadets at the academy feared the worst.
    — Kejal Vyas, WSJ, 18 Jan. 2019
  • Williams said of the cadets, who go on to be officers in the Army.
    — Roxana Tiron, Bloomberg.com, 27 Apr. 2020
  • One cadet met police and led them to the scene of the shooting and the wounded.
    — Phil Helsel, NBC news, 10 Apr. 2026
  • As the top cadet, Robinson can have her pick of any branch in the Army.
    — David Martin, CBS News, 15 Dec. 2024
  • To turn the rudder, six cadets must man three massive wheels made of wood and copper.
    — Karissa Waddick, USA Today, 1 July 2026
  • Duque, like Wang and Petty, was proud to be a cadet, his friends said.
    — Author: Lori Rozsa, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Feb. 2018
  • The youngest to die in the shipwreck was a 14-year-old cadet, Schwarz said.
    — Issy Ronald, CNN, 16 Aug. 2024
  • The rest of the cadets in the vehicle are believed to be doing fine.
    — NBC News, 6 June 2019
  • One of their dogs was a military cadet meant for Delta Force.
    — Discover Magazine, 14 Oct. 2024
  • Pike can’t shirk his promise to train cadets at the Academy.
    — Keith Phipps, Vulture, 11 Sep. 2025
  • The cadets’ names were withheld for privacy.
    — Eric MacK, FOXNews.com, 24 Mar. 2026
  • The quarantined student was not one of the cadets present at the event with Pence.
    — Madison Dibble, Washington Examiner, 3 Mar. 2020
  • Johnson, the cadet, ordered and was served a glass of Miller Lite beer.
    — David Anderson, The Aegis, 7 June 2018
  • Then a new cadre of cadets finished their training course and joined Simon’s unit.
    — Dan Senor, Fortune, 5 Nov. 2023
  • On the grounds, with a river view, a cadet has been found hanging and presumed to be a suicide.
    — John Anderson, WSJ, 5 Jan. 2023
  • Melling will play the bb Poe, a cadet at West Point who assists in the case.
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 10 June 2021
  • But the next day it’s discovered that while the dead cadet’s body lay in the morgue, his heart was cut out and taken.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 22 Dec. 2022
  • Along the way, the cadets could qualify for their third straight bowl game for the first time in school history.
    — Matt Murschel, OrlandoSentinel.com, 2 July 2018
  • Coach Troy Calhoun and the cadets deserve all the credit right now.
    — Dp Opinion, The Denver Post, 30 Dec. 2019
  • Paul Skenes’ background as a former Air Force cadet helped the cause.
    — Maria Torres, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2026
  • But the teenager made friends in the fire cadet program and seems to be on the right track now, Simpson said.
    — Sharon Coolidge, Cincinnati.com, 18 Oct. 2017
  • Brittain said cadets are also taught about mental illness and how to treat people who are in jails.
    — Rachel Royster, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 24 June 2026

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