Example sentences for: sergeant

How can you use “sergeant” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • After 1933 Fulgencio Batista, though only a sergeant, orchestrated the strings of power through a series of puppet presidents before winning the presidency outright in 1940.

  • “Thank you, Sergeant Willard.

  • One case in the story: an Air Force sergeant who arranged for his wife and mother to receive more $900,000.

  • General MacNair, commander of all U. S. ground troops, it stated that less authoritarianism and greater courtesy must thenceforth characterize all orders to enlisted men, and it closed with “the day of the shouting sergeant is over.”

  • After all, general , as in general of an army , is said to be derived on the model of sergeant-major-general sergeant acting for a large formation of men; eventually, sergeant-major was dropped, yielding general for the person in charge of an army.


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