Sergeant in example sentence

"You will please to remember, Captain John Lawton, that I am not the riding master of the regiment - nor a drill sergeant - nor a crazy cornet; no, sir - and I speak it with a due respect for the commission of the Continental Congress - nor an inconsiderate captain, who regards his own life as little as that of his enemies.

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You do that because, 27 years before, an airborne sergeant had taught me to do that.

I went down to be with a Ranger platoon on an operation in Afghanistan, and on that operation, a sergeant in the platoon had lost about half his arm throwing a Taliban hand grenade back at the enemy after it had landed in his fire team.

My colleagues in Parliament include, in my new intake, family doctors, businesspeople, professors, distinguished economists, historians, writers, army officers ranging from colonels down to regimental sergeant majors.

He's no longer Sergeant Jones in his community.

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