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Sergeant

noun

Any of several noncommissioned officer ranks in the Army or Air Force or Marines ranking above a corporal.

A lawman with the rank of sergeant. Synonym: police sergeant.

An English barrister of the highest rank. Synonyms: sergeant-at-law, serjeant, serjeant-at-law.

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"Sergeant" Quotes from Famous Books

... about shows that these officers' women have received her with open arms. They form a clique as exclusive as a quarantined smallpox patient, and a 'non-com' like myself is barred out, until I win a pair of shoulder-straps; when my rank would make me socially possible. Meantime, I'm a sergeant, and if Lyn went to picking friends out of the ranks, I'm not sure they wouldn't drop her like a hot potato. Sounds rotten, but that's their style; and you've been through the mill at home enough to know what it is to be knifed socially. It's different with you; you're an American citizen, a countryman ...

— Raw Gold - A Novel • Bertrand W. Sinclair

... over, and we were taking a glass of wine with Mr. Sharpe, when his chief clerk entered to say that Sergeant Edwards, an old soldier—who had spoken to them some time before relative to a large claim which he asserted he had against Captain Everett, arising out of a legacy bequeathed to him in India, and the best mode of assuring its payment ...

— The Experiences of a Barrister, and Confessions of an Attorney • Samuel Warren

... interrogated by the police sergeant who took a small package from him and brought ...

— Martians Never Die • Lucius Daniel

... undertaken will be our house. The people love to come and see us, and we are not left much to ourselves. Repetto, who was shipwrecked here about fifteen years ago, was a sergeant in the Italian navy; he is an intelligent-looking man, short, with dark hair, pale face, and a slight squint. He married a Green, one of Betty's nieces, and has six children. Some of the men and women ...

— Three Years in Tristan da Cunha • K. M. Barrow

... boys!" exclaimed a sergeant of the 210th Pennsylvania Volunteers, whose attention and head were turned at the clatter of horses' hoofs to the rear. "I heard an officer say that he would be along to-day, and ...

— Red-Tape and Pigeon-Hole Generals - As Seen From the Ranks During a Campaign in the Army of the Potomac • William H. Armstrong

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