adjutant

Example Sentences

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She spent 30 years working up the ranks in the Pasadena Police Department, where she became the department’s first Black female sergeant, lieutenant and adjutant to the chief of police, according to her campaign website.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 1, 2024

Gen. Thomas Suelzer was appointed by Abbott to oversee the Texas National Guard and Texas State Guard as the agency’s adjutant general.

From Salon • Jan. 24, 2024

Gen. Thomas Carden Jr., Georgia’s adjutant general, underscored those eyewitness accounts as he spoke about Story’s heroism on Monday.

From Seattle Times • May 29, 2023

Gen. Timothy P. Williams, the adjutant general of Virginia, said in a statement.

From Washington Times • Mar. 21, 2023

Amazingly, I get praised by Isabelle, the thin little seventyish lady who seems to be Ellie’s adjutant: I am doing “wonderfully,” she tells me, and—even better—am “great to work with.”

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich