How to Use rear admiral in a Sentence

rear admiral

noun
  • Jablon, the rear admiral, gave some more details on how US Navy subs are dispersed.
    — Eric Cheung, CNN, 5 Apr. 2023
  • Jackson was then an active duty rear admiral and physician to the president.
    — Dallas News, 9 Feb. 2022
  • The former rear admiral is board-certified in preventive medicine.
    — Bridget Byrne, Baltimore Sun, 17 Apr. 2026
  • Jackson is also currently an active-duty one-star rear admiral (lower half) in the Navy.
    — Jen Kirby, Vox, 29 Mar. 2018
  • Jones accepted the offer and went to work as a rear admiral commanding the 24-gun flagship Vladimir.
    — Craig Whitlock, Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2022
  • Jackson, a Navy rear admiral, denied the claims but withdrew his nomination.
    — Catherine Lucey and Matt Volz, chicagotribune.com, 5 July 2018
  • Jackson was nominated for a promotion to rear admiral (upper half) as recently as last week, which would give him his second star.
    — Aaron Blake, Washington Post, 29 Mar. 2018
  • The rear admiral acting as director was only recently promoted to one-star.
    — Alexandra Heal, Washington Post, 13 Aug. 2023
  • The son of a Navy rear admiral, Morrison cultivated his own mystique.
    — Keith Spera, NOLA.com, 9 Dec. 2020
  • At the time Eloise visited the White House, her father, a rear admiral in the Navy, had recently been killed in a plane crash.
    — Elizabeth Blair, NPR, 25 June 2026
  • The second is Grace Hopper, an autodidact, teacher, and Navy rear admiral, among many other things.
    — Anna Wiener, The New Republic, 1 May 2018
  • President Nixon approved her selection as the first female rear admiral in 1972.
    — Fox News, 30 July 2018
  • May, who rose to rear admiral, also contributed to an effort to guarantee the survival of Montauk Point Lighthouse.
    — Dorothy Wickenden, The New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2023
  • Trump said the decision whether to continue as the nominee was up to Jackson, the chief White House physician and a Navy rear admiral.
    — Noah Bierman, latimes.com, 24 Apr. 2018
  • When Robert Duvall was floundering around in college, his father, a career Navy man who retired with the rank of rear admiral, told him to shape up — and start acting.
    — Los Angeles Times, 16 Feb. 2026
  • Known as one of the least showy and hardest-working members of the royal family, Anne, 72, holds the honorary rank of rear admiral and has numerous decorations.
    — Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2022
  • Jackson, who retired in 2019 as a one-star rear admiral, was demoted to the rank of captain, according to two US officials.
    — Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 7 Mar. 2024
  • Born in San Diego, Duvall grew up in a series of Navy towns where his rear admiral father was stationed, said the Associated Press.
    — The Week Us, TheWeek, 24 Feb. 2026
  • One sling snapped while attempting to lift the submarine’s sail section, which weighs more than 18 tons, said Iwan Isnurwanto, a rear admiral in the Indonesian navy.
    — Jon Emont, WSJ, 18 May 2021
  • Jackson has served for the last three administrations as a White House physician and is an active duty rear admiral in the Navy, but has little management experience.
    — Juana Summers, CNN, 29 Mar. 2018
  • Electricity was also cut off to the residence of a Coast Guard rear admiral in New Orleans, forcing his family to drive to a hotel until service was restored.
    — Nicole Sganga, CBS News, 30 Apr. 2026
  • Both men were tasked with leading Iran’s defense during the 12-day war with Israel in June, along with Shamkhani, a former navy rear admiral who was killed in Saturday’s strikes.
    — Christian Edwards, CNN Money, 1 Mar. 2026
  • Born in San Diego in 1931, Robert Duvall was the child of a Navy rear admiral and a mother who had put her own acting ambitions aside to raise a family.
    — Chris Nashawaty, Vanity Fair, 16 Feb. 2026
  • Jackson, a rear admiral in the Navy who serves as the White House physician, was already expected to face difficult questioning during his testimony before the committee.
    — Author: Nicholas Fandos, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Apr. 2018
  • In 1958, the ring was found in Korea, astonishingly by the driver of an American rear admiral who had been one of Dial’s classmates at Annapolis many years earlier.
    — Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Jan. 2024
  • William Baumgartner, a retired Coast Guard rear admiral and former chief counsel to the service, said the strikes in the Caribbean will likely have no major effect on the flow of fentanyl into the United States.
    — Gordon Lubold, NBC news, 21 Nov. 2025
  • In the past, Iran has even used civilian vessels to lay mines, Mark Montgomery, a retired US Navy rear admiral and senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, told me.
    — Tim McDonnell, semafor.com, 3 Mar. 2026

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