Example Sentences

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“Of the Lieutenants currently available to oversee Homicide, Lt. Aimee Linson is the most qualified,” O’Hara said in a statement to the Star Tribune on Wednesday.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 9, 2023

Shift Lieutenants are responsible for working out the details.

From Slate • Mar. 22, 2020

Lieutenants will be split between the two jails to help control any issues that may arise after the transition.

From Washington Times • Aug. 14, 2019

West Point is still a military academy and graduates classes of Second Lieutenants into the Army every year.

From Salon • May 25, 2019

One of the Lieutenants was reading a newspaper.

From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara