How to Use major general in a Sentence

major general

noun
  • Many of us would try to humor a major general who held our life in his hands.
    — Celia Wren, Washington Post, 29 Mar. 2023
  • And Brian Bengston is the very model of a perfect major general.
    — Jack Helbig, Chicago Reader, 27 June 2018
  • The deputy chief of the general staff was charged with defrauding the state over radio gear, and a major general sentenced to prison in the case.
    — Thomas Gibbons-Neff, New York Times, 16 Dec. 2022
  • In one of the images, Sineenart, a major general, can be seen wearing a camouflage sports bra.
    — Morgan Krakow, Washington Post, 27 Aug. 2019
  • The scope of the changes triggered the Town Council to also approve a major general plan amendment.
    — Maritza Dominguez, The Arizona Republic, 21 Nov. 2022
  • Her grandfather served in the military and retired as a major general, but neither of her parents were in the military.
    — Fox News, 2 Nov. 2019
  • The very model of a modern dugout major general, Hinch is the first to earn a Series ring for Space City.
    — USA TODAY, 2 Nov. 2017
  • Boston served in a security detail for a major general in the capital city of Kabul.
    — Michael Gordon, charlotteobserver, 23 Mar. 2018
  • The six suspects included a retired major general and a serving police inspector.
    — ABC News, 22 Apr. 2026
  • The major general, his uniform adorned with a mosaic of colorful ribbons, sat at the end of the table and made a good-faith effort not to place blame where blame so clearly belonged.
    — Washington Post, 4 Mar. 2021
  • In addition to receiving the high rank of major general Pearson is the only pilot on Earth known to have shot down a satellite in orbit.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 8 July 2020
  • The toll includes five lieutenant generals, seven major generals and three former generals.
    — Efrat Lachter, FOXNews.com, 1 July 2026
  • By contrast, Israel’s air force is commanded by a two-star major general, served by a far slimmer staff that has no choice but to devolve authority downward.
    — Shashank Joshi, Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb. 2024
  • The time trial world champion has long been seen as a major general classification threat and one of the most talented riders of his generation.
    — Jessica Hopkins, New York Times, 15 Aug. 2025
  • Today, her rank is major general, and she's often known by the acronym for the adjutant general — TAG.
    — Stacey Barchenger, AZCentral.com, 21 Mar. 2025
  • Haight was demoted three ranks - from major general to lieutenant colonel - and forced to retire in 2016 over a personal misconduct scandal.
    — Craig Whitlock and Nate Jones, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Oct. 2022
  • Haight was demoted three ranks — from major general to lieutenant colonel — and forced to retire in 2016 over a personal misconduct scandal.
    — Nate Jones, Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2022
  • Moving forward, the two candidates will essentially go head-to-head next week in six states including Michigan, which will present one of their first tests in a major general-election swing state.
    — Matt Stevens, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2020
  • He was appointed a major general in the Continental Army in 1775.
    — Laura A. MacAluso & Karim M. Tiro / Made By History, TIME, 2 July 2024
  • Greene was a major general who was second in command in the Revolutionary War and served with George Washington.
    — Jason Silverstein, CBS News, 14 Oct. 2018
  • Cooley is the first Air Force major general to be court-martial trialed and convicted in the military branch’s 75-year history.
    — Emma Hinchliffe and paige McGlauflin, Fortune, 26 Apr. 2022
  • The young major general became a sort of surrogate son to George Washington, and served valiantly in the battles of Brandywine and Yorktown.
    — Cincinnati Enquirer, Cincinnati.com, 20 June 2018
  • The major general commands an elite unit known as the Quds Force and has been dubbed the most powerful intelligence operative in the Middle East.
    — Ken Dilanian, NBC News, 18 Oct. 2017
  • Peng, who holds the rank of major general, was previously the deputy chief of staff of China's paramilitary police force, the People's Armed Police.
    — Reuters, CNN, 10 Jan. 2022
  • The official results give the ruling party candidate Justo Noguera, an active major general, 2,000 more votes than shown in the receipts, the data show.
    — Anatoly Kurmanaev, WSJ, 19 Oct. 2017
  • In 2011, Anderson received her famous promotion as major general and then got a new assignment to the Pentagon as deputy chief of the Army Reserve.
    — Dawn Sawyer, CNN, 24 Nov. 2024
  • In 1996, former President Chun Doo-hwan, an army major general, was convicted for seizing power in a 1979 military coup and presiding over the 1980 Gwangju massacre of pro-democracy demonstrators.
    — Helen Regan, CNN Money, 19 Feb. 2026
  • Álvarez worked in Barranquilla, Colombia, with Cliver Alcalá, an exiled former Venezuelan major general and one of the Gideon planners, who surrendered on March 27 to Colombian authorities about five weeks before the May coup attempt.
    — Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 7 Nov. 2025

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