NOUN
- a commissioned officer in the Army or Air Force or Marines ranking above a 2nd lieutenant and below a captain
How To Use first lieutenant In A Sentence
- Appointed first lieutenant in the Continental Navy in 1775, Jones received the command of the Ranger in 1777.
- And Graham Gooch's first lieutenant Stewart, the Surrey skipper, will be a key witness at a committee of inquiry.
- Virtually all present were on the kaiser's team, while two first lieutenants played on the side of the armies of France, Britain, Belgium, and Holland.
- Ay, I'm no sayin 'ye may no be richt, sir," answered the first lieutenant; "but it'll be an unco strain upon the spars to set thae to'gallants'ls; our new rigging has stretched until it's all hangin 'in bights, as ye may see for yoursel' by lookin 'at it. A Middy of the King A Romance of the Old British Navy
- RA ranks within the 2nd Training Regiment at Fort Dix boasted just one colonel, one lieutenant colonel, a first lieutenant and three shavetails.
- Determined to know the worst, I remained outside till the opera was over, when I saw her come out, the captain and first lieutenant walking with the party -- so that I could not speak with her I walked to a posada (that's an inn), and drank seven bottles of rosolio to keep myself quiet; then I went on board, and the second lieutenant, who was commanding officer, put me under arrest for being intoxicated. Peter Simple
- Yew trust me, and yew'll find plenty of room; but if yew don't feel quite comf'table, if I was yew I'd just lie off for a bit while you send in one of your boats and Squire First Lieutenant there, to see what it's like, and the sooner the better, for the sun's getting low, and as I dessay yew know better than I can tell _yew_, it ain't long after the sun sinks before it's tidy dark. Hunting the Skipper The Cruise of the "Seafowl" Sloop
- In a press release of Philippine Information Agency, the surrenderee was identified as communist terrorist Michael Meñoza Aligato aka Neil or Ben, a native of Barangay Sagkahan, Kananga, Leyte, First Lieutenant Gabriel Aranez, spokesman of the 19th Infantry Battalion. Philippines Social Integration Program draws insurgents back into folds of law
- Cook kept the chronometers in locked wooden boxes and issued keys to the first lieutenant, the on-board astronomer, and himself.
- Michael quickly rose through the ranks as orderly sergeant, first lieutenant and captain.
