Sentences with chief
chief
C c - ...a commission appointed by the police chief.
- ...Sitting Bull, chief of the Sioux tribes of the Great Plains. [+ of]
- The chief confers with himself and delivers a morally incorrect choice.
- He took over as the new army chief after Musharraf's retirement on November 28, 2007.
- ...the chief test pilot.
- Financial stress is well established as a chief reason for divorce.
- Chief is applied to the person or thing first in rank, authority, importance, etc., and usually connotes subordination of all others [his chief problem was getting a job]; principal is applied to the person who directs or controls others [a principal clerk] or to the thing or person having precedence over all others by reason of size, position, importance, etc. [the principal products of Africa]; main, in strict usage, is applied to the thing, often part of a system or an extensive whole, that is preeminent in size, power, importance, etc. [the main line of a railroad]; lead1 verb transitive stresses capacity for guiding, conducting, or drawing others [a leading light, question, etc.]; foremost suggests a being first by having moved ahead to that position [the foremost statesman of our time]; capital1 is applied to that which is ranked at the head of its kind or class because of its importance or its special significance [the capital city]
- The chief magistrate
- The chief advantages
- All firefighters report to the fire chief.
- Hey, chief.
- Negligence was the chief cause of the disaster.
- The chief of police.
- An Indian chief.
- Chief of Engineers; Chief Signal Officer.
- We'll have to talk to the chief about this.
- The chief priest; the chief administrator.
- His chief merit; the chief difficulty.
- Editor in chief; commander in chief.