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Sentence Examples Hideaki Kaneda, a retired vice admiral in Japan's Self Defense Forces, is director of the Okazaki Institute. You can tell from the white dots and the red-barred forewings that it's a red admiral butterfly. Named after the admiral of the fleet, it was inevitable it would have a naval theme. With the promotion of Grand Admiral Xeraux, he was now the admiral of the entire fleet. It was the same reason that prompted the Army and Navy to cashier the admiral and the general in command at Pearl Harbor. It was as if he was planning his next move, with the subtlety and care of an admiral commanding a fleet of warships. The Mexican government apologized, but this wasn't good enough for the admiral commanding the local U.S. naval squadron. When I went to speak to the admiral who sailed the fleet over, he asked me where I hailed from. Ben-Hur is sentenced to the galleys, but saves the life of the admiral of the Roman fleet, Quintus Arrius, when their ship sinks in battle. Captain, the admiral of the main fleet has contacted us and requests to speak with you. To this end, each morning, the admiral in command of Second Fleet requires an operational brief, known as the Commander's Update. Admiral Jellicoe found fame in Word War One as the admiral who led the British Navy at the Battle of Jutland. Another butterfly that is rarely seen is white admiral, a beautiful butterfly that spends a lot of time feeding on honeydew at the tops of trees. The white admiral feeds on flower nectar, the juice of overripe fruit and the sap of damaged trees. The Butterfly House is under a tent in the summer where the white admiral butterfly reigns as Quebec's official insect. He also served 32 years with the U.S. Naval Reserve and retired as a rear admiral in aviation. Congress named him the first U.S. Navy rear admiral, vice admiral, and admiral. The commander of the MIF was at every point, from 1991 to 2003, a rear admiral or vice admiral from the US Fifth Fleet. Hopper, who earned her doctorate in math and physics from Yale in 1934, was a rear admiral in the Navy and a computer pioneer. In 1987 he was promoted to rear admiral and assumed the duties of Assistant Chief of Naval Staff. Show More Sentences Rising to the rank of rear admiral during World War I, Niblack would remain an advocate of Sailors his entire career. As a result, the Armed Services Committee held up the Navy board's selections for rear admiral and investigated the Navy's promotion system. Hill himself retired from the Royal Navy as a rear admiral, having worked for Lewin in a number of appointments. He was a Navy chaplain for 27 years, under fire with the Marines in Vietnam, retired as a rear admiral. Did you see the story in The New York Times today about the retired brigadier generals and rear admiral who came out of the closet? However, in order to disguise this distinction he was made an air marshal, to sit beside a full admiral and full general. Beds of nettles are slashed to the ground when the caterpillars of red admiral and other butterflies are hatching for next year's generation. The Royal Navy's top admiral has sent a personal message of congratulations to record-breaking yachtswoman Ellen MacArthur. A hatch opened on the top of the ship, revealing a Mulinyan admiral, carrying the red and yellow flag and a voice amplifier. He has commanded in every rank from lieutenant to vice admiral, and has flown his flag in all three of the Navy's aircraft carriers. It has also been home to an admiral, a church minister and a teacher as well as being a hunting lodge. The admiral stared at the blank screen for a few more minutes, his mind whirling a mile a minute. Unable in a state election to run as a foreign policy hawk, she did the next best thing by choosing a Republican admiral as her running mate. Crew from the admiral down to ordinary seamen had no enmity towards their opposite numbers. The order for retreat of the badly planned invasion was called and the battlegroup's admiral, Kenneth Alcolado, was forced to resign in disgrace. His interviews became notorious, often pitting a four-star admiral against a midshipman or junior officer in his twenties. The Chinese admiral after whom the US Navy just named a billion dollar warship, for example. An admiral goal provided the amateurs are raising their sights rather than the professionals dropping down a notch. One future admiral, in a moment of youthful unwisdom, had a fox-hunt tattooed down his back, with the fox disappearing into its earth. The admiral pointed to a speakerphone in the middle of the large mahogany table. Show More Sentences He joined USAA in 1997, after serving in the U.S. Coast Guard for 32 years and retiring as a vice admiral. We are going to talk to a vice admiral, retired from the United States Navy. An officer with the three stars of a vice admiral on his shoulders walked into the operations center. Apparently, the admiral set it up so you could meet with the whole command staff. Milkweed provides food for monarch butterfly larvae and stinging nettles host caterpillars of the red admiral butterfly. A one-star admiral has become the first woman to head up the U.S. Coast Guard's Fifth District. I counted 4 clouded yellows and 1 red admiral and there were numerous common darters and migrant hawkers. So it's completely logical that he flew the Union Jack at the foremast as an admiral of the fleet. News of her abduction gets back to the admiral, who, rather fortuitously, happens to be something of a skilled vampire hunter. Several galliasses, sent by the Spanish admiral to the rescue of the galleon, were nearly taken. All Sailors will be given a clear career roadmap, outlining how they progress from seaman to master chief, or from ensign to admiral. The moment the door slid shut behind the admiral, the questions erupted in a loud flow. Milking the moment for all that it was worth he drawled that the admiral must know something that had passed him by. The admiral steepled his fingers in a poise of deep thought. Carol wrapped up a box of Pop Tarts with a copy of the ground rules for embedded journalists, sealed with a portrait of the admiral, clipped from our press kit. He has been nominated for appointment to the rank of rear admiral. Nash is a retired rear admiral, formerly in charge of Navy construction. The admiral laughed in spite of the stupidity of such reasoning. As a result, Russia needed naval commanders and Jones was given the rank of rear admiral and sent to fight the Turks. Due to the diligence of the admiral and good support from the Royal Tribunal, all the gentlemen and noblemen, and all those who had a horse in the city followed him. Show More Sentences In his third effort to convince the Athenians of the threat from Macedonia, Demosthenes finally won some support and was appointed admiral of the Athenian fleet. In 1972, the first Navy Nurse Corps officer, Alene Duerk, was appointed to the rank of rear admiral, becoming the first woman appointed to flag rank in the U.S. Navy. Joshua Compston was a posh boy, his father a high-court judge, his grandfather a rear admiral. As a rear admiral Spruance commanded the cruiser division which acted as the surface screen for Halsey's carrier task force during the first months of the war. He used language to make his host, the Navy admiral who was the country's top military officer, blush. From 1981 to 2009, the current rear admiral worked at the Marcilio Dias Hospital where she reached the post of Deputy Director. Over the tearful protests of James himself, the French admiral chose not to risk a landing and opted to retreat instead of fight. In 1615, the colony was passed to a new company, the Somers Isles Company, named after the admiral who saved his passengers from the Sea Venture. Lieutenant admiral Rob Bauer is the current Commander of the Netherlands armed forces. An air chief marshal is equivalent to an admiral in the Royal Navy or a general in the British Army or the Royal Marines. For example, the rank that later became air chief marshal would have been air admiral. With the Tsesarevich's helm jammed and their admiral killed in action, she turned from her battle line, causing confusion among her fleet. However, his last work, a picture of a council of war presided over by the admiral, was recovered almost undamaged. On one occasion he wore the uniform of a British admiral to receive the visiting British ambassador. It gradually phased out its direct competitor the Nobel mine on the insistence of admiral Fyodor Litke. Insects including small tortoiseshell, purple emperor and white admiral butterflies are also advanced this year, according to Mr Oates. No admiral, bearded by three corrupt and dissolute minions of the palace, dared to do more than mutter something about a court martial. Daly retired from the Navy in August with the rank of vice admiral. The Czar has conferred upon Queen Olga, the honorary position of an admiral of the Russian fleet. Familiar butterflies whose numbers were reduced include holly blue, all three common whites, speckled wood and red admiral. Show More Sentences Herbs and plants, such as mint, lavender and buddleja, can encourage butterflies like large and small white and red admiral. Everybody knows butterflies adore buddleia, but the caterpillars of the red admiral love nettles. The admiral is the first enlisted man to lead the Navy, and Navy aides are busy cultivating his image as a four-star officer with a common touch. The Dutch admiral Maarten Tromp sailed to the isles and on arriving on 30 May 1651 demanded compensation. Four of the ships sank or capsized, with at least 1,450 dead, including the commanding admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell. The professional head of the Naval Service is the First Sea Lord, an admiral and member of the Defence Council of the United Kingdom. James, doubtful of his brother's chances of regaining the throne, considered taking a Spanish offer to be an admiral in their navy. Elfrith was appointed admiral of the colony's military forces in 1631, remaining the overall military commander for over seven years. He placed great trust in Zheng He, even giving him blank scrolls with the imperial seal so the admiral could issue imperial orders at sea. Zheng He was placed as the admiral in control of the huge fleet and armed forces that undertook these expeditions. In the fighting for Bahrain, most of the combat was carried out by Portuguese troops, while the Ormusi admiral, Reis Xarafo, looked on. The admiral of the ship that sailed to Brazil sent Nicolau Coelho out to interact with the natives. Chinese admiral Zheng He and his naval expeditionary force landed at Galle, Sri Lanka in 1409 and got into battle with the local king. On May 22, before building of the fort had started, the orang kaya called a meeting with the Dutch admiral, purportedly to negotiate prices. The Portuguese admiral Afonso de Albuquerque sailed to Muscat in 1507, in an attempt to establish trade relations. Here they were found by the heavily armed flagship of the London whaling fleet, the Hercules, under admiral William Goodlad. He returned to Batavia in June 1627 and soon afterwards, as admiral of a fleet of eight vessels, went on a diplomatic mission to India. At the end of 1603 Van der Hagen was chosen as the admiral of the VOC's first fleet. In 1616 admiral Van der Hagen defeated the Portuguese at the Malay Peninsula. He survived to become an admiral known as the Father of Carrier Aviation. Show More Sentences One day an air marshal, the next day an admiral of the fleet, then a field marshal. Instead, the power was split between himself, a governor, a general, and by the 1750s, an admiral. He was knighted, elected to Parliament, and appointed a vice admiral of the Royal Navy. They complied by, among other things, enacting Articles of War to reinforce the authority of an admiral over his captains. Promoted to vice admiral on 16 April 1694, Shovell commanded a squadron on expeditions to Dieppe and Dunkirk, later in the year. James's Church there is a monument to the 17th century admiral Sir Robert Holmes who was at Yarmouth. Demoralised by the loss of its admiral and seriously short of food, the fleet returned to Plymouth. The Lion of Amphipolis, erected in 4th BC in honour of Laomedon of Mytilene, admiral of Alexander the Great. No actual post is discernible in this regimen, which he could not have conducted as admiral at Misenum, unless his duties as admiral did not require his presence at Misenum. The admiral will be commissioning the new destroyer in a few minutes. The night being calm, the steersman also decided to sleep, leaving only a cabin boy to steer the ship, a practice which the admiral had always strictly forbidden. The following year, the English admiral Robert Blake supposedly attached a whip to his mast as a symbol that he had whipped the Dutch off the sea. To form the battle line in the correct orientation relative to the enemy, the commanding admiral had to know the enemy fleet's distance, bearing, heading, and speed. The rank of admiral has also been subdivided into various grades, several of which are historically extinct while others remain in use in most present day navies. In 1555, one of the islands of Guanabara Bay, now called Villegagnon Island, was occupied by 500 French colonists under the French admiral Nicolas Durand de Villegaignon. John Rushworth Jellicoe, admiral of the Grand Fleet, was perpetually nervous about the possibility of submarine or destroyer attacks on Scapa Flow. This expedition was led by Hendrik Brouwer, a Dutch admiral. Most memorable of these battles was the raid on the Medway, in which the Dutch admiral Michiel de Ruyter sailed up the river Thames, and destroyed most of the British fleet. Plutarch's account is that roughly 14 days before his death, Alexander entertained admiral Nearchus, and spent the night and next day drinking with Medius of Larissa. Some larger ships may have a separate flag bridge for use by the admiral and his staff while the captain commands from the main navigation bridge. Show More Sentences Earlier in the day saw sets Imagination, from Emma's Movement, The Temperance Saints, Holy The Velveteen and Esque, King Charles admiral Nile Fallow. Examples from Classical Literature Among the officers who came and spoke to us, was an admiral, Sir Isaac Coffin. There were thirty-five ships from Peloponnesus, with the Lacedaemonian admiral Pythagoras on board. The sailors, rejoicing in the largesses of the admiral, were heard murmuring their slow and artless songs. The convives on this occasion were merely the admiral himself, Greenly, and Atwood. The brave English admiral had his leg carried off by a chain shot, and received two other wounds. One of these was intended for the admiral in command of the French fleet at Cherbourg. Fullarton said and, running to the bed, began to unknot the cord that bound the admiral. I will do my devoir to our young queen, and must then proceed on my journey to find the admiral. These consisted of a family, of which the head was said to be, or to have been, an admiral in the Dutch navy. He was as proud of his chalk quarry as an admiral of his first dreadnaught. Sawkins, whose canoe was disabled, went next into the piragua to meet Peralta, leaving the four canoes to harass the admiral. When the admiral wants 'any old thing' he tells his flag officer to send the Naval Reserve ship. They said, the gentleman who presided, was a Sir Borlase Warren, the admiral on the station. When the capture of this rare butterfly became known the red admiral nearly went crazy. Of course we named him the red admiral, and he accepted the name with suppressed fury. In the ajuga there were 4000 pesos of gold belonging to the admiral, each peso being worth eight shillings. And there, in the afternoon sunlight, he made the acquaintance of the red admiral. Monseigneur, to provision a fleet, to assemble a flotilla, to enroll your maritime force, would take an admiral a year. The admiral, outraged almost to the point of apoplexy, came in. George, shall I give you the dictionary definition of an admiral? Show More Sentences The admiral tossed four sponge-cakes in quick succession down the accommodating throats of the dogs. The admiral filled the large glass with port, filled his own glass with claret, and raised it to his lips. Was there some nocturnal danger in the house of which the admiral was afraid? The admiral flipped a couple of toggle switches on his desk. It would puzzle the oldest admiral in their British fleet to cast this here net fair, with a wake like a corkscrew. He despatched a muchacho at once to fetch the future admiral. While I was debating whether I should follow him or not, my meditations were suddenly brought to an end by a loud call from the admiral. But familiar species such as the red admiral and painted lady are tougher than they look. In 1898, the highest officer in the American navy was the rear admiral. The rank of rear admiral is equal to that of major general in the army. They were both addressed to the red admiral, and they bore English stamps. The red admiral fluttered his wings again, as if he quite understood. He was swaying on his feet when he painted in the red admiral. Or perhaps the red admiral was indeed a fairy, as Peter said he was. Bitias was the admiral of the Punic fleet, as Livy informs us. Cadet Faraday, you are requested to report to the rear admiral at once. How would you like to be rear admiral of the naval forces of Honduras? The captain was John Willett Payn, afterward a rear admiral. His honor, the admiral, likes a parlor-maid with a clean run fore and aft. The admiral is a gentleman, the house is noble, the tab le is excellent. Show More Sentences Buckingham, in utter hopelessness, cast a look of despair at the princess, of supplication towards the queen, and directed a glance full of anger towards the admiral. That minister was GALBET, or admiral of the realm, very much in his master's confidence, and a person well versed in affairs, but of a morose and sour complexion. After the junction with the army of the brilliant admiral and Petersburg hero Wittgenstein, this mood and the gossip of the staff reached their maximum. The admiral declared himself smitten with pity for her hard lot in life. Find more words! 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Words that rhyme with admiral What is the plural of admiral? What is the noun for admiral? Translations for admiral Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words admirably admirable admirability admins administred administratrix Admiral admirals admiralty Admiralty admiration admirations 7-letter Words Starting With a ad adm admi admir admira