brevet
Example Sentences
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I hereby grant you the rank of brevet colonel in the army of the level-headed, Pacific Command.
From Fox News • Nov. 27, 2019
Rolling in after 407km, we got our brevet cards stamped and tucked into warming bowls of homemade daal.
From The Guardian • May 31, 2018
The use of brevet jurists was proposed last year by the American Board of Trial Advocates, an association of Western lawyers.
From Time Magazine Archive
In his own absence from Washington, Johnson has increasingly relied on the Defense Secretary to act as unofficial brevet deputy President.
From Time Magazine Archive
He carried this so far, that to be praised by Goethe came at last to be considered a brevet of mediocrity.
From The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine by Heine, Heinrich
