Example sentences for: sergeant

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

  • 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.

  • Parcells runs his training camps and practices with a drill sergeant's discipline: He abuses and needles players to inspire them.

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

  • A sergeant that she crazily loves.

  • Hype derives from hyperbole , and when it came into use in the '60s, it was used, in much the way overhyped is used today, to refer to something praised far in excess of its value ("Sergeant Pepper has been hyped as a masterpiece, but the fact is, most of the songs on it aren't of the first rank").


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