How to use "general" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "general" in popular movie and book plots

  • One day, Devlin receives word that a German general is willing to negotiate the surrender of his entire corps.  - Decision Before Dawn
  • Gray is often incapacitated with agonising migraines due to a general nervous collapse.  - The Razor's Edge
  • The bugler then sounds general quarters.  - Wake Island (film)
  • At the town's general store, Shane and other homesteaders are loading up supplies.  - Shane (film)
  • In his embarrassment, he has to pretend to be the general manager, even succeeding in impersonating him to get back at Stubbs.  - Safety Last!
  • The trial put aside, Chicolini and Pinky join Firefly and Bob Roland in anarchic battle, resulting in general mayhem.  - Duck Soup (1933 film)
  • Lives of your own, or a return to chains", whereupon a general insurrection begins.  - V for Vendetta
  • He takes the officer captive and is spotted by the general leaving the locomotive with his prisoner.  - The General (1926 film)
  • It is not until after he reaches the rear of the army that he overhears a general announcing the Union's victory.  - The Red Badge of Courage
  • After the Huns, led by the ruthless Shan Yu, invade Han China, the Chinese emperor orders a general mobilization.  - Mulan (1998 film)
  • When pressed, the general states that they do not.  - Lawrence of Arabia (film)
  • Brad Braden is the no-nonsense general manager of what was at the time the world's largest railroad circus.  - The Greatest Show on Earth (film)
  • The story ends in "Confrontation", which is set in Castle Offenbach as he confronts the Nazi general behind the chemical warfare initiative.  - Wolfenstein 3D
  • Before specializing he served as general practitioner in rural Sweden.  - Wild Strawberries (film)
  • If such a link were created, the network would become equivalent to Reality as the general consensus of all perceptions and knowledge.  - Serial Experiments Lain
  • An Entwicklungsroman ("development novel") is a story of general growth rather than self-cultivation.  - Bildungsroman

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