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

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

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

I met, too, ministers to Copenhagen who considered themselves, because of royal patronage, ambassadors by brevet, and who exacted 'Excellency,' not as a courtesy but a right!

From Ten Years Near the German Frontier A Retrospect and a Warning by Egan, Maurice Francis