four-star

Example Sentences

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“It’s his military. He created it, and is the only four-star general in the country.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026

The four-star review added that it is "both an easy and a deeply unsettling watch".

From BBC • May 13, 2026

Among them were the first female commandant of the Coast Guard, the head of the Army’s Chaplain Corps, and a four-star general overseeing the Army’s Transformation and Training Command.

From Salon • May 1, 2026

The 1988 presidential campaign of Alexander Haig, a former four-star general who served as Ronald Reagan’s first secretary of state, flamed out amid GOP infighting over the Iran–Contra affair.

From Slate • Apr. 6, 2026

At seventeen, his favorite thing to do was to take me to four-star restaurants throughout Silicon Valley.

From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi