commandant
Example Sentences
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Rep. Lauren Underwood, D-Ill., met with the Coast Guard’s acting commandant, Admiral Kevin Lunday, to discuss the policy.
From Salon • Nov. 21, 2025
In 2024 I helped the nonprofit Counter Extremism Project buy the house next door to Auschwitz, where camp commandant Rudolf Höss lived with his family.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 20, 2025
Then he laid eyes on 15-year-old Conchita Arguella, who was also, conveniently, the daughter of the commandant of the San Francisco Presidio.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 1, 2025
The Nazi officer made commandant of the concentration camp, Rudolf Höss, brought the motto Arbeit Macht Frei - works sets you free - from another camp where he had worked, at Dachau in Germany.
From BBC • Jan. 16, 2025
But the commandant looked satisfied, perhaps even relieved.
From "Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps" by Andrea Warren
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
