How to Use commandant in a Sentence

commandant

noun

• The house of Rudolf Höss, the Auschwitz camp’s wartime commandant.
  — Andrew Higgins, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2025
• At the best of times, the office of commandant is one of the proudest in the military.
  — New York Times, 31 Dec. 2019
• At one of them the station’s commandant emerged from his gatehouse to check out our bikes and took a liking to my fly rod.
  — Nate Matthews, Field & Stream, 7 Dec. 2020
• The commandant relented, put his pistol back in the holster and walked away.
  — Fox News, 17 Jan. 2023
• The commandant had also stayed behind, in his office.
  — Charles Pellegrino, Rolling Stone, 6 Aug. 2025
• Karl Streibel had been the commandant of the Trawniki training camp.
  — Debbie Cenziper, Washington Post, 23 Jan. 2020
• Among the frozen promotions are for the commandant of the Marines and, later this month, the chair of the joint chiefs of staff.
  — Paul Gattis | [email protected], al, 6 Sep. 2023
• Provocatively, the story came in part from the perspective of the camp commandant.
  — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Jan. 2024
• The system also enabled the commandant to relay messages from his desk to the entire camp.
  — Simon Parkin, Time, 2 Nov. 2022
• The prison commandant, not at all pleased, right there in his office had guards break McCain’s ribs, rebreak his arm, knock his teeth out.
  — Elliot Kaufman, National Review, 19 July 2017
• Marines can appeal any denials to the assistant commandant of the Marine Corps.
  — Lolita C. Baldor, ajc, 14 Jan. 2022
• The father, Rudolf Höss (Christian Friedel), is the camp’s commandant.
  — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Dec. 2023
• When the study was shifted to the war college, plans for a foreword by the Army leadership were dropped in favor of one by the war-college commandant.
  — Michael R. Gordon, WSJ, 22 Oct. 2018
• But when the commandant’s job opened in 2015, the Marines had spent nearly two decades in a state of constant deployment.
  — Sam Walker, WSJ, 28 June 2018
• Our film is about Rudolf Höss, the commandant of Auschwitz, and his family, who built a beautiful life just behind the wall of the camp.
  — Carolyn Giardina, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Dec. 2023
• The president of the United States or the commandant of the Marine Corps or someone would like to call.
  — Callum Borchers, Washington Post, 19 Oct. 2017
• The movie tells the story of a Nazi commandant who tries to build a beautiful life for his family next to the Auschwitz concentration camp.
  — Rebecca Aizin, Peoplemag, 18 Dec. 2023
• Among them were the Army secretary and chief of staff, the commandant of the Marine Corps and the top two officers in the Navy.
  — Tom Vanden Brook, USA TODAY, 9 Apr. 2020
• Right there, in a building that once served as the SS commandant’s headquarters, is a functioning church, with large crosses in front and atop the building.
  — Avi Weiss, New York Daily News, 27 Jan. 2025
• The shakeup comes in the wake of the abrupt firing of Admiral Linda Fagan, who served as the first female commandant.
  — Lisa Hagen, Hartford Courant, 1 Feb. 2025
• Greene, later the Marine Corps commandant, wanted Marines in space by 1968.
  — Tom Vanden Brook, USA TODAY, 11 July 2018
• The movie highlights the ‘banality of evil,’ a phrase coined by Hannah Arendt, and puts forward the idea that the commandant was just a person, not a monster.
  — Saskya Vandoorne, CNN, 17 Jan. 2025
• Wallace writes, the commandant of the prison offered to let McCain, the son of a top-ranking US naval officer, go.
  — Caroline Houck, Vox, 26 Aug. 2018
• The band’s mission is to provide music for the president of the United States and the commandant of the Marine Corps.
  — Emily Sorensen, Pomerado News, 18 Oct. 2019
• David Forman, deputy commandant of midshipmen, a midshipman who mistook authorized law enforcement as a threat engaged and was injured in the process.
  — Alexandra Koch, FOXNews.com, 17 Sep. 2025
• One of their leaders, a colonel of the Russian National Guard named Sergei Dovgan, began to act as the commandant of the surrounding town.
  — Simon Shuster, Time, 23 Oct. 2025
• With a German commandant enraged, Edmonds stood his ground and invoked prisoners' rights under international law.
  — ABC News, 2 Mar. 2026
• Admiral Kevin Lunday, commandant of the Coast Guard, said the discovery reconnects the service to a defining moment in its history.
  — Anthony Thompson, USA Today, 30 Apr. 2026
• The story behind how Rudolph morphed into history’s most prolific killer during his tenure as commandant of Nazi Germany’s most notorious camp is still something of a mystery to his grandson.
  — Johnny Dodd, PEOPLE, 11 Oct. 2025
• The controversial wording was later removed after two Democratic lawmakers put a hold on Lunday’s nomination for commandant until the manual was changed.
  — Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 25 Feb. 2026