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Example sentences for "master general"

  • Colonel, and held the appointment of Deputy Quarter-Master General to the expedition under Lieut.

  • Colonel Murray was employed in the Quarter-Master General's department of the army under the Duke of York in Holland; and he was wounded in the action on the Helder.

  • General in June, 1745, at which time he was performing the duty of Quarter-Master General to the army in the Netherlands, commanded by his Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland.

  • On the downfall of North's administration he became pay-master general, and obtained a seat in the Council.

  • Thomas Mifflin, who accompanied Washington from Philadelphia as aid-de-camp, was made quarter-master general.

  • He resigned his office of quarter-master general in 1780, and was succeeded by Timothy Pickering.

  • The admirable arrangements of the quarter-master general's department, under the able management of General Greene, enabled the army to move with facility.

  • The first was deputy quarter-master general; the last two were aids-de-camp.

  • Clearings were the balance of each Officer's pay above his subsistence, after the deductions stated were made, which ought to have been regularly paid by the Pay-Master General to the different Marine Agents.

  • During the last named year he was quarter-master general of the British forces in Flanders.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "master general" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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