| Young subalterns would, apparently, signal the start of an advance by nipping up from the trench and blootering the ball at the enemy lines. |
| Unable to confront their oppressors head on, subalterns have historically employed alternative modes of concealing their innermost feelings from their tormentors. |
| What is the implication of their social structure for understanding new forms of sub-social classes and subalterns in urban social formations? |
| Then we had another suicide, one of our newly joined subalterns, which couldn't be put down to the war. |
| While the majority were subalterns, captains were included on the basis of one in eight. |
| When he went on the road he drew impressive crowds ranging from the subalterns at his old military college to the minister of defence himself. |
