By orders of his "superior officer" Halleck, Grant was held idle at the forts that he had conquered while this opportunity slipped away.
Halleck was a major-general in the regular army and Grant's "superior officer.
But you have just told us you are good enough to write to Petróusha's superior officer.
I entered the house, after having agreed to rejoin my superior officer, so soon as I considered I had obtained my object.
The true occasion of the convulsions appears to have been the news of the death of a superior officer.
Eventually, he was sent from the front for having insulted and struck a superior officer.
As a soldier, he does not know the insignia of the different ranks but understands how to obey a superior officer.
A noncommissioned officer or soldier who attends a superior officer to carry his orders, or to render other service.
It was but last night he declared that decency must give way to duty, and that the orders of a superior officer were to be obeyed, with or without garments.
His doing wrong assuperior officer is no reason why you as an inferior should disobey him.
When a mid is in love, he always goes aloft to think of the object of his affection; why, I don't know, except that his reverie is not so likely to be disturbed by an order from a superior officer.
I deny that Midshipman Hepburn is my superior officer,--that any man on this ship or in the Navy of George the Third is my superior officer.
To my amazement and horror, I learned that I was upon trial, under the name Jack Numskull, for the crime of striking my superior officer, the penalty for which was death.
Do you admit that you struck your superior officer?
He was just passing the last house of the village when he found himself unexpectedly surrounded by a score of Austrian soldiers in a half-tipsy condition, so that they took him for their superior officer.
Next time ask permission from your superior officer.
I don't want to be lacking in respect, sir, to my superior officer, no matter what the occasion may be .
It is no wonder the order called forth the indignant protest of Colonel Gray, but coming as it did from a superior officer, it was reluctantly obeyed.
No; I took it off, by orders of my superior officer.
They had been ordered to disband, contrary to the wishes of Colonel Gray and his officers, and nearly obeyed an order made by a superior officer.
Unlike Article 62, disrespect toward a superior officer requires no words--acting or neglecting to act (such as rudeness or failure to salute) are enough.
When a superior officer passed by they assumed the regulation attitude slowly and carelessly, and the officers and non-commissioned officers took pains not to see the incipient insubordination.
In doing one's superior officer a small service, one may be doing the greatest of all to oneself.
Throw them up out of the rowlocks, and raise them perpendicularly an-end; the act is intended as a compliment to a superior officer rowing by.
A superior officer, captain, appointed to superintend disembarkation of an attacking force, who holds plenary powers, and generally leads the storming party.
The execution of the sentence against an offender, as awarded by a court-martial, or adjudged by a superior officer.
Ensign Darrin," he cried, "you have made the error of striking a superior officer when on duty!
And all this, on account of a puppy of a junior who will not use sense and reason at the request of a superior officer!
Though Dave Darrin felt a tremor of uneasiness, his eyes flashed back honest indignation and contempt for so unworthy a superior officer.
I was accused of reckless driving and with intent to drown my superior officer.
I agree with you in your interpretation of your rights in the case, and I shall, as you suggest, make my recommendations to my superior officer.
By the way, I did hear that William the First had been called before a court-martial for insubordination and ungentlemanly language to a superior officer.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "superior officer" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
