How to Use petty officer in a Sentence

petty officer

noun

• Kelly attained the rank of first class petty officer, Rachal said.
  — Anna Marum, OregonLive.com, 10 Jan. 2018
• Smith, who reached the rank of petty officer, dropped by the restaurant every day for seven months and bought a diamond ring.
  — Sig Christenson, San Antonio Express-News, 28 May 2018
• Jason Jenkins, a petty officer 3rd class on the Roosevelt, held his 2-month-old daughter Sage for the first time after walking off the brow of the ship.
  — Andrew Dyer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 May 2021
• He was promoted to the equivalent of a petty officer after the rules were changed.
  — Bob Egelko, San Francisco Chronicle, 23 Sep. 2021
• The petty officer 2nd class returned on Aug. 9 when the Eisenhower docked at its home port in Norfolk, Va.
  — Robert Avery, Houston Chronicle, 13 Aug. 2020
• Brianna, who is a petty officer stationed with the Navy in Jacksonville, is staying on the Navy base, Williams said.
  — Victoria Albert, CBS News, 11 Nov. 2019
• Romero was an active-duty U.S. Navy petty officer who was just shy of his two-year anniversary with the Navy.
  — Fox News, 9 Dec. 2019
• Walsh was responsible for hiking in to get it and killed the petty officer who spotted him.
  — Sara Netzley, EW.com, 11 Oct. 2022
• With her wereher Navy petty officer husband, Mark, also 29, and two sons, Joseph, 5, and Matthew, 2.
  — John Wilkens, sandiegouniontribune.com, 17 Jan. 2018
• Chief petty officer Richard Jongordon, known to his shipmates as Chief Johnny, stood with his fellow sailors to the last man — which turned out to be him.
  — Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 Mar. 2021
• Then in the present, Billy's nephew Sean turns out to be the prime suspect in the shooting death of possum-loving petty officer Danna Calley.
  — Sara Netzley, EW.com, 15 Mar. 2022
• The Coast Guard petty officer who answered the phone offered to send someone over, but Hathaway declined.
  — Outside Online, 17 Apr. 2018
• Five people were killed and 18 wounded, and the police said the death toll could have been higher if not for the actions of the two men, one an Army veteran and the other a Navy petty officer.
  — Zackary Canepari, New York Times, 17 Feb. 2023
• At least four female victims have taken their own lives in the past eight years, including a ​navy ​chief petty officer who was found dead in her ​apartment in August.
  — New York Times, 15 Oct. 2021
• Williams is a petty officer at Naval Air Station Jacksonville.
  — Washington Post, 25 Nov. 2019
• Drake had been selected for promotion and authorized to wear the rank of a second class petty officer, but had not yet been advanced.
  — Courant Community, 11 Sep. 2017
• The citation notes that the petty officer encountered automatic weapons fire from a bunker about from him.
  — Tom Vanden Brook, USA TODAY, 24 May 2018
• Brianna Williams is a petty officer stationed with the Navy in Jacksonville, but most of her family is in Alabama.
  — CBS News, 8 Nov. 2019
• White, a former Navy petty officer, spends much time during these months posting videos of the adult eagles' daily life, which involves a lot of nest repair and bringing food back for one another and the eaglets.
  — Jennifer Bolton, Houston Chronicle, 24 Jan. 2018
• When a petty officer's found dead at a campsite bathroom, the team follows the trail to a nearby lake, where an extremely attractive, extremely naked man is splashing away.
  — Sara Netzley, EW.com, 11 Oct. 2022
• He was demoted from chief petty officer to a 1st class petty officer.
  — NBC News, 24 Nov. 2019
• The petty officer, who worked as a construction electrician, is charged in the indictment with conspiracy and receipt of a bribe by a public official.
  — Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Aug. 2023
• Richardson credited a team of female sailors – mostly petty officers –for helping to craft the new regulations.
  — Joel Shannon, USA TODAY, 12 July 2018
• Before she was deployed earlier this summer, Ms. Coppola, a petty officer, sold her car, let go of her $1,300-a-month apartment in Washington state, and has been bulking up her savings.
  — Chris Kornelis, WSJ, 11 Sep. 2017
• Stone, who died one day after the tenth anniversary of Monsoor’s death, was on an adjacent rooftop during that battle and later said the petty officer’s bravery inspired him to re-enlist after the end of that deployment.
  — Joshua Stewart, sandiegouniontribune.com, 2 Oct. 2017
• After a petty officer fired shots in its vicinity, the shark swam away, apparently uninjured.
  — Alex Chaet, CNN, 28 Aug. 2020
• The former petty officer was honorably discharged in 2016.
  — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Mar. 2021
• The unnamed sailor depicted in the statue is believed to be approximately 25 years old and a senior second class petty officer, according to the U.S. Navy Memorial.
  — Cameron Fields, cleveland, 9 Sep. 2021
• He was demoted from chief petty officer to a 1st class petty officer following his conviction.
  — Fox News, 25 Nov. 2019
• Like his postwar demotion from acting petty officer to midshipman, this stung Martin’s class-conscious dignity.
  — Dominic Green, WSJ, 6 Oct. 2017

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