epaulet

Example Sentences

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It tapped into all of the frailty that hides beneath the epaulets, badges and symbolic ribbons.

From Washington Post

The former officer, whose uniform — with its epaulets, badges and deadly weapons — had once given him the aura of might and entitlement, now looked like a diminished man with a buzz cut wearing borrowed clothes.

From Washington Post

The day’s testimony began with a Black woman with shoulder-length dreadlocks dressed in a Capitol Police uniform, with its epaulets and badges and her gold shield.

From Washington Post

It is about an election that was stolen by men in embroidered epaulets with a history of treating the country as a personal fief.

From New York Times

Myanmar has experienced decades of such misrule by men in epaulets.

From Washington Post