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Example sentences for "other ranks"

  • Seeman gassed, in addition to those already mentioned) and about 70 other ranks, while a great many horses and mules were killed; nine guns were knocked out by Artillery fire.

  • The casualties in the artillery up to this date had been: 3 officers and 72 other ranks killed.

  • The casualties up to this date amounted to 3 officers and 80 other ranks killed.

  • Of the full strength battalion which had landed at the beginning of July, there were only left sixteen officers and 498 other ranks at the end of September.

  • Three officers, 74 other ranks, 28 animals and five vehicles will be landed with Divisional Headquarters.

  • One officer and 23 other ranks, with two pack animals from the Brigade Signal Section, will be landed with each Infantry Brigade.

  • For the first time it now had a bombing section of 2 officers and 70 other ranks; a sniping detachment was also organised.

  • There were now only two officers and about 100 other ranks, but these included a good sprinkling of seasoned warrant officers and N.

  • Thirteen military officers and seventy-nine of other ranks, and of the ship's company the Captain, two wireless operators, and six of other ratings were drowned.

  • They are desperate, and act with the folly and extravagance of desperate men, who must either starve, or frighten their masters into an immediate compliance with their demands.

  • To him, land is only the instrument which enables him to earn the wages of this labour, and to make the profits of this stock.

  • Added to this was a brigade staff of five officers and 21 other ranks to be raised from all districts.

  • His total captures were thus 2 officers and 61 other ranks, together with 6 machine guns, and with the exception of the Trench Mortar assistance, it was absolutely an individual effort and done entirely on his own initiative.

  • By this time the Company had been reduced from 90 to about 30 other ranks; but this officer, seeing enemy fire coming from a quarry, to his left front, again led his men forward and rushed the quarry.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "other ranks" 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:
    other castes; other children; other commodities; other composers; other denominations; other form; other game; other goods; other grounds; other hands; other languages; other libraries; other matter; other persons; other poems; other power; other reason; other references; other regions; other schools; other snakes; other than; other villages; other world; other years; others said