commander

Definition:
1. An officer in command of a military unit.
2. Someone in an official position of authority who can command or control others.
3. A commissioned naval officer who ranks above a lieutenant commander and below a captain.
4. An officer in the airforce.

Use 'commander' in a sentence:

1. There were reports last month of unsuccessful negotiations between guerrillas and commanders.
2. Braunau was the chief headquarters of the commander-in-chief, Kutuzov.
3. The commander is testing his soldiers.
4. He would relay the information to his commander.
5. Early in 1941 he was named commander of the Afrika Korps.
6. Two of those arrested are said to be self-styled area commanders.
7. He was a commander who never took risks.
8. The company commander roared his command.
9. Two of the trucks were stopped because they had tents in them, and under the commanders' definition of humanitarian aid, that didn't count.
10. The commander messaged "well done" to his pilots.
11. "Three old men are buried here," the commander says.
12. An arrest made by a Midville police officer is provisional until the officer has taken the suspect to the police station and the watch commander has officially approved the arrest.
13. The commander admitted defeat in the battle.
14. The commander of the German task force radioed that he was breaking off the action.
15. A captain ranks a commander in the navy.
16. You may be wondering how I have won so many honors as a commander in chief.
17. The commander refused to withdraw his troops.
18. He personally had received orders from Commander Lehmann to scuttle the ship.
19. If mistakes occurred, they were assumed to be the fault of the commander on the spot.
20. The commander and some of the men had been released.
21. Farari served as field commander.
22. Giving them an airy wave of his hand, the Commander sailed past.
23. Long years of fighting made him a commander with both skill and dash.
24. This place is occupied by the commander of the cruiser.
25. A senior Hamas military commander was among the dead.
26. "Although the job is challenging, risky and dangerous, there is nothing more I would rather do," Jing Haipeng, 50, who is commander of this mission, told reporters.
27. The military commander has been dismissed.
28. In the navy, a captain is above a commander.
29. The division commander ordered that we start the attack before dawn.
30. Thrasybulus has been widely recognized as a successful military commander.
31. He successively held the posts of brigade and army commander.
32. The people who picked me up were very interesting lawyer, retired surgeon and tank commander.
33. A commander mustn't get too anxious for the sake of some partial advantage.
34. MacArthur was Supreme Commander for the allied powers in the Pacific.
35. The general was relieved of his office as a supreme commander.
36. The Deputy Commander has condemned this weekend's protest as deliberate provocation.
37. For a military commander, winning or losing a battle is a common occurrence.
38. Mobutu ascended through the ranks, eventually becoming commander of the army.
39. The captured commander faced the interrogation with dignity.
40. The president of the United States is the commander-in-chief of the armed forces.
41. The commander said that the army would comply with the ceasefire.
42. The report lashes into police commanders for failing to act on intelligence information.
43. The commanders accused him of carrying out a reign of terror.
44. The operation is being seen as a swift riposte to the killing of a senior army commander.
45. He was commander in chief during the invasion of Panama.
46. Russian commanders docked a huge aircraft carrier in a Russian port.
47. Such approval is denied if the commander judges that the evidence on which the provisional arrest is based is insufficient.
48. The commander had been forewarned of the attack.