Sentence example with the word 'subaltern'

subaltern

aide, commandant, creature, flunky, inferior, lieutenant general, marechal, pawn, servile, subservient, underprivileged

Definition adj. inferior in rank or status

Last update: August 9, 2015


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His younger daughter married a subaltern in a line regiment, belonging to the lesser nobility; as ennobled by marriage (according to the liberal rule of this particular court), she was duly "presented."   [Please select]

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But the slim, fair-haired young subaltern worshipped him openly and with reason.   [Please select]

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"How like a subaltern, or a colonial civil servant."   [Please select]

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Tommies and Jocks saluted every subaltern with an automatic gesture of convulsive energy.   [Please select]

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They nicknamed his book "A Subaltern's Advice to Generals," and called Churchill himself a "Medal Snatcher."   [Please select]

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As he passed, he touched his subaltern upon the shoulder.   [Please select]

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I could not imagine a Sikh or subaltern stupid enough to believe me innocent.   [Please select]

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Meantime the chief of police called his subaltern and placed in his hands the peculiar descriptions.   [Please select]

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The subaltern whose surname is scarcely heard beyond the roll-call on parade, bears the colors of his company where the fight is hottest.   [Please select]

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An hour or two afterward a subaltern coming out of the Cashmere gate saw a dhooli, deserted by its bearers.   [Please select]

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Everard was a senior subaltern in a Ghurka regiment--an awfully taking chap evidently.   [Please select]

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