How to Use lieutenant general in a Sentence

lieutenant general

noun
  • Self also retired from the Army with the rank of lieutenant general.
    — Elaine Mallon, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 3 Jan. 2025
  • Li was promoted to lieutenant general and then again to general in just three years.
    — Nectar Gan, CNN, 1 July 2024
  • The lieutenant general urged Americans to trust and take the vaccine.
    — CBS News, 28 Oct. 2020
  • The retired lieutenant general stood at a podium, flanked by Barisich and a handful of others.
    — Sara Sneath, NOLA.com, 20 Apr. 2018
  • General Caine retired with three stars, as a lieutenant general.
    — Eric Schmitt, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2025
  • Six African Americans reached lieutenant general, or three stars.
    — Helene Cooper New York Times, Star Tribune, 4 Mar. 2021
  • Flynn, a retired lieutenant general, had tried to get out of appearing before the panel.
    — Arkansas Online, 9 Dec. 2022
  • Each corps is headed by a lieutenant general who has operational control of the troops under his command.
    — Aqil Shah, Foreign Affairs, 16 June 2023
  • In this, his latest film, Matt Damon plays a lieutenant general named Leslie Groves.
    — Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 12 July 2023
  • Roger Cloutier, in the meantime, was promoted to lieutenant general.
    — James Gordon Meek, ABC News, 11 Nov. 2021
  • Seven African Americans reached lieutenant general, or three stars.
    — New York Times, 6 Aug. 2022
  • Donahue, who has since been promoted to lieutenant general, did not respond to a request for comment sent to Fort Bragg.
    — Seth Harp, Rolling Stone, 4 Sep. 2022
  • The retired lieutenant general said the scaling back of the permanent fencing perimeter around the complex was in line with a reduction of threats aimed at the complex.
    — Davone Morales and Jack Arnholz, ABC News, 4 Apr. 2021
  • Buckner, a lieutenant general, was the highest-ranking American to die by enemy fire in the war.
    — David Kindy, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 June 2020
  • The toll includes five lieutenant generals, seven major generals and three former generals.
    — Efrat Lachter, FOXNews.com, 1 July 2026
  • Jim Pillsbury retired as a lieutenant general in 2011, and while still major patrons, Becky long ago passed the day-to-day torch.
    — al, 24 Feb. 2021
  • His appointment by Ford in 1975 came as Scowcroft retired from the Air Force with the rank of lieutenant general.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 7 Aug. 2020
  • Tom Bostick retired as a lieutenant general after 38 years of service during which his family moved 27 times.
    — Sidney E. Goodfriend, WSJ, 12 Nov. 2018
  • He ultimately was fired and demoted to lieutenant general upon retirement.
    — Davis Winkie, USA Today, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Subianto, a former lieutenant general who married one of Suharto's daughters, was a longtime commander in the army special forces, called Kopassus.
    — Niniek Karmini and Edna Tariganthe Associated Press, arkansasonline.com, 15 Feb. 2024
  • Flynn rose to the rank of lieutenant general who formerly led the Defense Intelligence Agency.
    — Paul Gattis | [email protected], al, 16 Feb. 2022
  • Lee’s father was a lieutenant general in the Kuomintang, the nationalist Chinese army, and his family spent the next eight years in southern China.
    — Timothy McLaughlin, Wired, 17 Sep. 2020
  • The posting in August to Camp Pendleton delayed his promotion to lieutenant general and his orders to take over as deputy commandant of aviation.
    — Erika I. Ritchie, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Feb. 2024
  • His first costume was a reproduction of the uniform Lafayette would have worn as a French lieutenant general in 1791, which Taylor made himself.
    — Jordan Greene, PEOPLE, 10 June 2026
  • The recommendation is a setback for Flynn, a retired Army lieutenant general whose guilty plea in late 2017 marked a stunning downfall.
    — Adam Goldman, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Jan. 2020
  • In addition to the mass shooting by a soldier in February 2020, a police lieutenant general opened fire in a military school in Bangkok last month, killing two people.
    — Hannah Beech, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Oct. 2022
  • The retired lieutenant general said that Iran’s development and acquisition of a nuclear weapon would be the most destabilizing event for the Middle East.
    — Chris Massaro, Fox News, 15 Jan. 2025
  • Van Fleet and his team oversaw a complete overhaul of military personnel, appointing a new chief of staff and compelling all of the Hellenic Army’s lieutenant generals except one to resign.
    — Mara Karlin, Foreign Affairs, 16 Oct. 2017
  • Prabowo, the former son-in-law of Indonesia’s late dictator Suharto, was fired from his post as lieutenant general in 1998 amid accusations of human rights abuses.
    — Tribune News Service, Orange County Register, 14 Feb. 2024
  • For them, the fact that Kelly and Mattis retired from the military as full generals, while McMaster remained in uniform as a three-star lieutenant general, almost guaranteed that the three would clash.
    — chicagotribune.com, 7 Mar. 2018

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