How to Use cadet in a Sentence

cadet

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  • The youngest to die in the shipwreck was a 14-year-old cadet, Schwarz said.
    — Issy Ronald, CNN, 16 Aug. 2024
  • Wonder what the culture is like for the cadet in the front?
    — Fox News, 22 Dec. 2019
  • About 30 cadets stepped out of big vans and at least one wheezed at the stench.
    — Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs, baltimoresun.com, 18 June 2018
  • Williams said of the cadets, who go on to be officers in the Army.
    — Roxana Tiron, Bloomberg.com, 27 Apr. 2020
  • Melling will play the bb Poe, a cadet at West Point who assists in the case.
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 10 June 2021
  • More than 200 cadets would join the infantry and take on the bulk of the fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan.
    — Mark Yost, WSJ, 10 Nov. 2023
  • LaMay joined the State Patrol in 1999 as a trooper cadet.
    — al, 2 Feb. 2022
  • The quarantined student was not one of the cadets present at the event with Pence.
    — Madison Dibble, Washington Examiner, 3 Mar. 2020
  • The rest of the cadets in the vehicle are believed to be doing fine.
    — NBC News, 6 June 2019
  • In that picture, Calkins stands out from the other cadets.
    — Thomas Lake, CNN Money, 21 Apr. 2023
  • One cadet was also expelled around the same time for use of racial slurs.
    — Washington Post, 26 June 2018
  • Coach Troy Calhoun and the cadets deserve all the credit right now.
    — Dp Opinion, The Denver Post, 30 Dec. 2019
  • Those with children who are cadets at the academy feared the worst.
    — Kejal Vyas, WSJ, 18 Jan. 2019
  • One of their dogs was a military cadet meant for Delta Force.
    — Discover Magazine, 14 Oct. 2024
  • But the next day it’s discovered that while the dead cadet’s body lay in the morgue, his heart was cut out and taken.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 22 Dec. 2022
  • The heir presumptive was just 13 at the time — five years younger than the naval cadet — but quickly fell in love.
    — Caroline Picard, Good Housekeeping, 20 June 2018
  • The cadet is now staying with a high school friend in another state.
    — Dave Collins, Hartford Courant, 2 Sep. 2022
  • Indeed, after all the West Point cadets were sent home for spring break in March, Lt.
    — Eric Schmitt, New York Times, 24 Apr. 2020
  • On the grounds, with a river view, a cadet has been found hanging and presumed to be a suicide.
    — John Anderson, WSJ, 5 Jan. 2023
  • This is where the 18-year-old cadet would meet his third cousin, 13-year-old Princess Elizabeth.
    — Katie Frost, Town & Country, 9 Apr. 2021
  • Along the way, the cadets could qualify for their third straight bowl game for the first time in school history.
    — Matt Murschel, OrlandoSentinel.com, 2 July 2018
  • More than 30 Ukrainian cadets, who were over 18, were sent to a navy base at the Russian port of Novorossiysk for training.
    — Carlotta Gall, New York Times, 27 Dec. 2023
  • Then a new cadre of cadets finished their training course and joined Simon’s unit.
    — Dan Senor, Fortune, 5 Nov. 2023
  • The event was live-streamed and cadets were filmed giving their own predictions for what was inside the box.
    — CBS News, 31 Aug. 2023
  • The one-time police youth cadet could get life in prison if convicted.
    — CBS News, 3 Nov. 2021
  • The first Black cadet to graduate from the Coast Guard Academy.
    — Bernard McGhee, ajc, 10 Dec. 2021
  • Cochran began his career as a police cadet in Mobile and worked his way up the ranks over the course of three decades.
    — al, 4 Jan. 2022
  • McCullough joined the department in 1985 as one of just two Black cadets that year.
    — Cassidy Jensen, Baltimore Sun, 17 Apr. 2023
  • When Army plays Navy, the most stirring sight of all is what happens in the stands, when the cadets and midshipmen sing their respective fight songs, with tears in their eyes.
    — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 27 Oct. 2024
  • The event is pageantry and patriotism with a revelry of cadets and midshipmen bouncing and cheering for their branch.
    — Jay Ginsbach, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024

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