The Cardassian prisoner looked much too old to be a mere lieutenant as his pendant indicated.

He set sail last summer as a mere lieutenant.

How dare a mere lieutenant overrule him?

This was a young, handsome officer, a mere 0-3 lieutenant, lowest in the command section of the ship.

It wasn't anywhere a mere lieutenant was ever likely to enter.

Miles fantasized about courting her in his own persona-would a commander accept a date from a mere lieutenant?

The doorman coming out of the entrance hall as Ramage alighted, stopped when he saw the visitor was a mere lieutenant and went back into the building.

Booly, feeling guilty because of the way he had dumped the entire matter onto a mere lieutenant, ran for the senate chambers.

The proud daughter of a captain (retired) cannot stoop to a mere lieutenant.

Which was one reason a man who had accomplished so much had been a mere lieutenant when Oscar Saint-Just suffered a mischief.