COLONEL in a Sentence

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For COLONEL, below is one of 136 sentences:
The high-shouldered figure of Zherkov, familiar to the Pavlograds as he had but recently left their regiment, rode up to the colonel.

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 Meanings and Examples of COLONEL
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
colonel
 n.  a commissioned military officer
Classic Sentence: (131 in 9 pages)
1  Schubert, the colonel of the Pavlograd Hussars, is dining with us today.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XII
2  At the other end sat the count, with the hussar colonel on his left and Shinshin and the other male visitors on his right.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVIII
3  The colonel told them that the declaration of war had already appeared in Petersburg and that a copy, which he had himself seen, had that day been forwarded by courier to the commander-in-chief.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIX
4  The colonel was a stout, tall, plethoric German, evidently devoted to the service and patriotically Russian.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIX
5  Pierre listened to the colonel's speech and nodded approvingly.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIX
6  You tell the colonel in the presence of other officers that an officer has stolen.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER V
7  Beside the bridge Nesvitski found the colonel to whom he had to deliver the order, and having done this he rode back.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII
8  The high-shouldered figure of Zherkov, familiar to the Pavlograds as he had but recently left their regiment, rode up to the colonel.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VIII
9  Zherkov was followed by an officer of the suite who rode up to the colonel of hussars with the same order.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VIII
10  The colonel deliberately stopped the regiment and turned to Nesvitski.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VIII
11  continued the colonel in an offended tone.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VIII
12  The colonel looked silently at the officer of the suite, at the stout staff officer, and at Zherkov, and he frowned.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VIII
13  Rostov no longer looked at the colonel, he had no time.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VIII
14  "At boss zides, Captain," he heard the voice of the colonel, who, having ridden ahead, had pulled up his horse near the bridge, with a triumphant, cheerful face.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VIII
15  And Denisov rode up to a group that had stopped near Rostov, composed of the colonel, Nesvitski, Zherkov, and the officer from the suite.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VIII
Example Sentence:
1  The colonel led a successful raid against a rebel base.
2  A colonel is inferior to a general.
3  Regiments are usually commanded by a colonel and are sometimes made up of soldiers from a particular city or part of the country.
4  The colonel in charge of the rubbish clearing operation, Keith Schollom, told me this was literally a mountain of a problem to be dealing with.
5  A book on the face of it so quintessentially British - about a British colonel and his conception of duty and honour.