How to Use corporal in a Sentence

corporal

1 of 2 noun
  • As the corporal tried to help him out and give him water, the man went limp.
    — Mirzahussain Sadid, ProPublica, 5 Apr. 2022
  • The corporal, did alert police about the crash and was injury-free.
    — Rayna Reid Rayford, Essence, 26 Oct. 2023
  • Six years later, he was sworn in as corporal, then sergeant three years after than.
    — Pioneer Press, Chicago Tribune, 14 Feb. 2023
  • As a reserve, he wasn’t paid for his duty as a reserve corporal.
    — Les Zaitz, oregonlive, 26 Jan. 2023
  • Pursued by the military police, there is an episode in which the team helps an army corporal.
    — Itxu Díaz, National Review, 16 May 2021
  • At first, the corporal was very convincing.
    — Literary Hub, 27 Jan. 2026
  • The video shows Hall raising his hands after a corporal fired the initial shots, which missed him.
    — NBC News, 19 Nov. 2021
  • Davis achieved the rank of corporal in the Korean War.
    — Sophia Tiedge, jsonline.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Eleven hours and 37 minutes into his shift, the corporal was ready for his first traffic stop of the day.
    — Emily Davies, BostonGlobe.com, 2 June 2022
  • His corporal regularly beat him and once tried to strangle him.
    — Eve Fairbanks, The Dial, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Hall’s hands stayed above his head as a corporal and another trooper fired several more shots.
    — NBC News, 30 Mar. 2022
  • Hall’s hands stayed above his head as the corporal and another trooper fired several more shots.
    — NBC News, 19 Nov. 2021
  • Donald Lee, a corporal with the mental health unit, is Rindr’s handler.
    — Annie Blanks, San Antonio Express-News, 21 Oct. 2021
  • The corporal, who alerted police to the collision, was not injured.
    — Jon Schuppe, NBC News, 25 Oct. 2023
  • The corporal, who has resigned from the department, declined to comment.
    — Justin Jouvenal, Washington Post, 11 Aug. 2022
  • He was never deployed and held the rank of corporal at the end of his service, an Army spokesman said in an email on Friday.
    — Dallas News, 25 Feb. 2022
  • One Montgomery officer was struck in the leg and another, a corporal, was shot in the torso.
    — Carol Robinson | [email protected], al, 11 May 2021
  • Here there are no good, wise old Gandalfs, and the hero is just as likely to be a gambling, lazy corporal as a knight in shining armor.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes, 6 Sep. 2021
  • The deputy, who is a K-9 corporal, pursued Linder on a nearly 7-minute long chase.
    — Joe Mario Pedersen, orlandosentinel.com, 22 June 2021
  • Before he was dismissed from his job, Panya served as a corporal, a low rung in the police hierarchy.
    — Hannah Beech, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Oct. 2022
  • The problem is that most privates and corporals face a 10% marginal federal income tax rate at most.
    — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 22 Mar. 2026
  • In another high-profile incident last week, a Houston-area corporal was shot and killed during a traffic stop.
    — Danielle Wallace , Stephanie Pagones, Fox News, 31 Jan. 2022
  • Landing had to bury a corporal and, unable to fire rifle volleys at the funeral for military reasons, ordered the new taps to be played instead.
    — Sig Christenson, San Antonio Express-News, 31 May 2021
  • Daniel Debono, a 32-year-old corporal, has been suspended without pay amid the case, said Graveline.
    — Darcie Moran, Detroit Free Press, 6 Dec. 2020
  • During one of these closures, a Marine corporal saw a heavyset man in his late 20s pinned against a retaining wall, screaming.
    — Mirzahussain Sadid, ProPublica, 5 Apr. 2022
  • Christopher Wilske, a corporal with the state’s prison system, was shot on the right side of his face near the bridge of his nose, according to investigative reports.
    — Alex Brizee, Idaho Statesman, 5 May 2026
  • When Britain withdrew its troops from the island a few months later, a Scottish corporal and several others chose to stay behind.
    — Sasha Chapman, Discover Magazine, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Rudloff was promoted in 2003 to senior corporal, then took classes that qualified him to do field training.
    — Dallas News, 16 Sep. 2021
  • The Southlake officers involved in the shooting were a captain, a sergeant, a corporal and an officer, Brandon said.
    — Dallas News, 17 Oct. 2022
  • Brown, who’s from Woodlawn, is a corporal with the Bladensburg Police Department.
    — Mckenna Oxenden, baltimoresun.com, 22 Apr. 2021

corporal

2 of 2 adjective
  • But Matt pled guilty to the corporal injury on a spouse charge.
    — The Foretold Team, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2023
  • The band’s fevered rave-ups and corporal rhythms teeter just on the edge of collapse and take half a century of New York noise with them.
    — Jenn Pelly, Time, 4 Dec. 2025
  • He was released from custody on a charge of inflicting corporal injury on a spouse or cohabitant.
    — Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 2 Feb. 2021
  • He was posthumously promoted from corporal to sergeant, the military said.
    — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 29 Mar. 2026
  • The first arrest was for corporal injury on a current or former spouse, People reported.
    — Brian Niemietz New York Daily News (tns), al, 25 Apr. 2023
  • The felony charge of inflicting corporal injury on a spouse was reduced to misdemeanor domestic battery.
    — Nardine Saad, Los Angeles Times, 18 Aug. 2022
  • Carlson was arrested later that evening for a felony of domestic violence with corporal injuries.
    — Charmaine Patterson, PEOPLE.com, 9 Mar. 2022
  • Giuffre describes the school environment as rough, cruel, and controlling, a corporal place that led her to run away several times.
    — Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Welsh, 36, was sentenced to 18 years in prison for corporal injury on a person as a person with a prior conviction.
    — Ishani Desai, Sacbee.com, 5 Apr. 2025
  • Randle was detained on suspicion of corporal injury to a spouse or cohabitant on March 1.
    — Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 8 June 2026
  • But a spokesperson for the sheriff’s department said he had been arrested on suspicion of corporal injury to a spouse or cohabitant.
    — Connor Sheets, Los Angeles Times, 25 May 2025
  • He is charged with one felony count of domestic battery with corporal injury and one felony count of false imprisonment by menace, violence, fraud, and/or deceit.
    — Vulture, 12 Jan. 2023
  • Roiland had faced one count of domestic battery with corporal injury and one count of false imprisonment by menace, violence, fraud and deceit.
    — Jonah Valdez Los Angeles Times (tns), al, 23 Mar. 2023
  • This religion and this text share an investment in blood-spilling and bodily mutilation and corporal self-sacrifice.
    — Literary Hub, 29 Oct. 2025
  • He has also been convicted for corporal injury on a spouse, battery on a non-prisoner while in prison and possession of a deadly weapon while in prison, state prison officials said.
    — Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 29 Apr. 2025
  • Romo was out on bail after being charged in December with two felony counts of corporal injury on a spouse and false imprisonment, along with misdemeanors.
    — Amanda Lee Myers, USA TODAY, 22 Mar. 2023
  • The 45-year-old Oakland woman was charged with felony counts of child abuse and causing corporal injury to a child, as well as a misdemeanor count of child cruelty, court records show.
    — Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 15 Dec. 2025
  • In Victorian times, hands were accorded cult-like status, viewed as the corporal embodiment of loveliness, virtue, and class.
    — Lauren Mechling, Town & Country, 5 Mar. 2022
  • The indictment dismissed Friday followed one in 2023, which charged her with a felony count of corporal injury and three felony counts of poisoning.
    — City News Service, Oc Register, 29 May 2026
  • Hill, who denied any involvement in the assault, was charged with misdemeanor counts of corporal injury to a relationship partner and false imprisonment.
    — Harry Harris, Mercury News, 26 Nov. 2025
  • In addition to murder, prosecutors said a jury also found Lopez guilty of assault on a child under 8 causing death and four counts of corporal injury to a child.
    — Daniella Segura, Sacbee.com, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Shagan and his corporal Saskia (Sophie Robertson) have broken into the safe house and are holding her family hostage.
    — Nicole Briese, People.com, 22 Aug. 2025
  • According to Bitensky, corporal violence benefits the punisher more than the child.
    — Lydia Wang, refinery29.com, 5 May 2021
  • Roiland, 42, was charged with a felony count of domestic battery with corporal injury and a felony count of false imprisonment by menace, violence, fraud and/or deceit.
    — Doha Madani, NBC News, 25 Jan. 2023
  • Court and jail records show Stevens was also being held on a remand arrest in connection with a 2022 felony case of corporal injury on a spouse or cohabitant.
    — Corey Schmidt, Sacbee.com, 29 Apr. 2026
  • Their attempts to make sense of the universe, their earnest amazement at its marvels, and their unrelenting corporal drive make for surprising moments of introspection and revelation.
    — Literary Hub, 16 July 2024
  • Justin Jerome Phillips, now 42, survived the shooting and was arrested on suspicion of robbery, corporal injury of a spouse and threatening with a weapon.
    — Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 21 Apr. 2025
  • The man was later booked on suspicion of crimes that included corporal injury to a spouse or cohabitant, robbery, resisting arrest, and drug possession after he was found with methamphetamine.
    — Robert Salonga, Mercury News, 4 May 2026
  • Daniella and Castro admitted to injuring a corporal officer by dislocating his shoulder, per the outlet.
    — Colson Thayer, PEOPLE, 16 June 2026
  • Thao was initially charged with murder, but in April pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter and corporal injury to a spouse, along with an allegation of personally using a firearm.
    — City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 June 2021

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