noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
fleet admiral
rear admiral
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
red
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In common with several other species, the red admiral favours the stinging nettle as a place to lay its eggs.
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Mungo noticed a red admiral caught in cobwebs on the window overlooking the green.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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None of the astronomers or admirals on the board had any knowledge about the Watch or what made it run so regularly.
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On the outbreak of the civil war the navy rallied to Parliament, which made Warwick its lord high admiral .
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Resignations, both of ministers and of admirals but not of the Chancellor, were threatened.
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The elderly admiral sighed and penned his name to yet another scrap of printed paper.
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The generals and admirals said they had always been against the blockade as being too weak and now they wanted immediate action.
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Until last summer, each naval station was a separate facility reporting to one of three admirals.
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Yet he could not doubt now, after what the admiral had told him.