How to Use master sergeant in a Sentence

master sergeant

noun
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  • He was discharged with the rank of master sergeant in 1954.
    — Frederick N. Rasmussen, baltimoresun.com, 23 Feb. 2018
  • Clayton, 42, was a master sergeant in the police department at the time of her death.
    — Gregory Lemos and Kay Jones, CNN, 8 Dec. 2021
  • His father was a U.S. Air Force master sergeant, his mother the daughter of a country singer.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 3 Aug. 2022
  • Miller rose the ranks quickly for his leadership skills and became a master sergeant.
    — Monivette Cordeiro, orlandosentinel.com, 7 Nov. 2019
  • An Army master sergeant was found dead last week in his off-post home near Fairbanks, the fifth soldier to die in the state in less than two months, the Army said Friday.
    — Wyatt Olson, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Jan. 2022
  • Someone in green camouflage fatigues with black master sergeant stripes jumped out and grabbed a cardboard box.
    — Mike Masterson, Arkansas Online, 24 Apr. 2021
  • Ross was many things during his lifetime; a master sergeant in the U.S. Air Force, a high-school dropout, a medical records technician and a part-time bartender.
    — David Lyman, The Enquirer, 20 Nov. 2020
  • Teixeira's stepfather, Thomas Dufault, served for more than three decades as a master sergeant from the same unit, the 102nd Intelligence Wing.
    — Mike Brest, Washington Examiner, 14 Apr. 2023
  • Whittle is a master sergeant in the Oklahoma Air National Guard.
    — Fox News, 28 May 2018
  • Clayton, 42, was a master sergeant in the police department at the time of her death and was posthumously promoted to lieutenant.
    — Tina Burnside and Dakin Andone, CNN, 3 Mar. 2022
  • Clayton, 42, was a master sergeant in the police department at the time of her death; she was posthumously promoted to lieutenant.
    — Eric Levenson, CNN, 23 Oct. 2019
  • Estanez Landa, of Elgin, was taken to an area hospital with injuries that were not life-threatening and the master sergeant was not hurt.
    — Rosemary Sobol, chicagotribune.com, 16 Oct. 2021
  • He was promoted to be the Special Warfare Training Group's chief airborne instructor in 2016, and more recently to master sergeant.
    — Francisco Guzman and Brian Ries, CNN, 16 Jan. 2020
  • Jack Goncalves was promoted from master sergeant and will be stationed in Bridgeport as commanding officer.
    — Ruth Bruno, courant.com, 26 May 2018
  • The attorneys offered a master sergeant to testify instead.
    — Alicia Fabbre, chicagotribune.com, 3 July 2019
  • In 2009, an off-duty police sergeant with hearing loss, from nearby Richmond, was pulled over in Rosenberg, according to a federal lawsuit that the master sergeant, Robert Eiteman, filed.
    — Tim Stelloh, NBC News, 6 Aug. 2022
  • As a retired Illinois State Police master sergeant, Johnson had investigated hundreds of death cases and found this one to be unusual for two key reasons.
    — Elyssa Cherney, chicagotribune.com, 8 Dec. 2019
  • On Thursday, a military court issued an arrest warrant for an air force master sergeant suspected of committing the harassment.
    — Andrew Jeong, WSJ, 3 June 2021
  • High-jinks aside, the young Marine was an outstanding infantryman, says Brian Mullen, a staff sergeant in Fallujah, who served more than two decades himself, eventually retiring as a master sergeant.
    — Ben Kesling, WSJ, 28 May 2021
  • Law, the retiring master sergeant who helped Eightfold test its software, says having that connection with another veteran at prospective employers is often a decisive factor.
    — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 11 Nov. 2020

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