commandant
Example Sentences
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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
Linda Fagan, who was commandant of the U.S.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 9, 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
“We continue to make mission without ever diminishing our standards,” Gen. Eric Smith, commandant of the Marine Corps, flatly told Congress earlier this month.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 15, 2024
"The Red Cross is coming to pay us a visit," says the commandant in a tone dripping with innuendo.
From "What the Night Sings" by Vesper Stamper
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
