After peace was declared, he was promoted to be a rear-admiral, and the people of the United States presented him with the costliest sword ever given a military or naval officer.
A naval officer, now retired from the service, told me not long ago, the words "capture or destroy" have been used in instructions to naval officers for three hundred years.
He also spoke of his acquaintance with Dewey during the Civil War, and upon long cruises when they were shipmates; and particularly dwelt upon the ability and good judgment that characterized him as a naval officer.
Had he been a naval officer, he would have had to answer at a court-martial for his conduct, and it is impossible to imagine any punishment for such an offence, short of death.
Who was the relative whose husband was a naval officer?
At Versailles I was once dining at a restaurant near a naval officer.
At the request of a naval officer in high command, Farragut applied to Butler for steamboats to tow the mortar vessels to Vicksburg.
He is not given to writing many letters; but the last time I was in Mobile I was told that he had again been sent off on some sort of secret service with a naval officer by the name of Galvinne.
More than ever before in the two years of his experience as a naval officer, he realized that it was his duty to "Stand by the Union.
I suspected at once that he was a naval officer; I don't know why, but it is difficult to mistake a navy man.
Never before had I the faintest conception of the breadth and depth and height of a naval officer's objurgatory powers.
Those classified under any collector, naval officer, surveyor, or appraiser in any customs district shall be designated "The classified customs service.
It was taken for granted that as soon as a man became a Councillor he was to have the next vacancy as colonel of militia, or collector of the export duty, or naval officer.
The foreman was favored with a naval officer's place, .
During the government of Felix Marquina, a naval officer, the Compania de Filipinas was founded to commence a trade between Spain and the Philippines.
Jose Basco y Vargas, a naval officer, came out as Governor-General, and found the country overrun with banditti.
Footnote 211: Journal of a Naval Officer, in Sargent.
Then he saw two more Americans pass the light, one a naval officer in his white uniform.
For now that he had become so enthusiastic over his determination to follow his father's wishes and become a naval officer he felt he had neglected many past opportunities for learning about the service.
I rather think I shall have to do some pretty hard digging if I ever expect to be a naval officer.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "naval officer" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
