How to Use sergeant in a Sentence

sergeant

noun

• The force of the impact caused the SUV to roll on its side and catch fire, the sergeant said.
  — Caleb Lunetta, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Feb. 2023
• The cougar was then shot and killed, according to the sergeant.
  — Kirsty Hatcher, Peoplemag, 19 Feb. 2024
• Derek, who turns 38 on Aug. 30, is a sergeant with the D.C. police.
  — Courtland Milloy, Washington Post, 15 Aug. 2023
• Sean Rios, who was killed in a shootout while the sergeant was on his way to work.
  — Chron, 16 Nov. 2022
• The sergeant checked records and found the car had been reported stolen.
  — Thallman, oregonlive, 16 June 2023
• Regier called for order and asked the sergeant of arms to clear the gallery.
  — Anumita Kaur, Washington Post, 25 Apr. 2023
• The unit’s sergeant put her staffing crisis in stark terms.
  — James Freeman, WSJ, 3 June 2022
• The sergeant tried to assign Khazin to the call, court records state, but Khazin did not want to take it.
  — Sarah Nelson, The Indianapolis Star, 2 Sep. 2023
• The sergeant quickly ordered the officers to leave the scene.
  — oregonlive, 18 Apr. 2023
• The sergeants' union and police chief at the time said they had been overcharged.
  — Violet Ikonomova, Detroit Free Press, 9 July 2024
• Smiley told the sergeant that if the game was close, Bryant wouldn’t be coming out.
  — Anthony Gharib, USA TODAY, 12 July 2023
• As Elliot gave chase, the suspect opened fire, striking the sergeant in the head.
  — Caleb Lunetta, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 May 2024
• The sergeant arrived first but the man had bailed from his rig and run into some brush.
  — oregonlive, 7 Jan. 2023
• That is when Finnerty, the sergeant in charge that night, got involved.
  — Andrew Ryan, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Oct. 2022
• Calles hopped in a van and the sergeant followed, calling for backup.
  — Austindedios, oregonlive, 27 July 2023
• Police spokesman Diego Pesqueira said a police sergeant died in the crash.
  — Zach Lachance, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 2 Sep. 2024
• He was shot while charging a police sergeant with a knife.
  — John Hilliard, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Jan. 2023
• The Oakland native spent nine years in the Army, leaving the service as a sergeant.
  — Rodney Ho, ajc, 13 July 2022
• The sergeant allegedly joked about the use of AirTags with Labrada, the report says.
  — Libor Jany, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2024
• The sergeant in charge of our makeshift platoon in Chu Lai was a Korean War vet.
  — Gerald McCarthy, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 June 2023
• The patrol sergeant stopped the vehicle, but the driver fled the traffic stop in their car.
  — Kelli Bender, PEOPLE.com, 14 June 2022
• At one point, the field lights cut off and the sergeant directs the officer to handcuff the director.
  — Minyvonne Burke, NBC News, 19 Sep. 2023
• As the sergeant chased after the assailant, a large rock fell from the man’s pocket, video of the incident shows.
  — Lyndsay Winkley, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 May 2024
• The sergeant said the group made arrangements to join up in downtown Toronto.
  — Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 21 Dec. 2022
• The men had just lost their beloved older sergeant, George Cox, who had been a kind of father figure.
  — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 12 Nov. 2023
• The sergeant called him multiple times over the span of 15 minutes, ordering the man to put down the firearm and remain still.
  — Perry Vandell, The Arizona Republic, 20 Apr. 2023
• But the suspect saw it in the driver’s door of Chapman’s car, and the sergeant then found nine $100 bills there, according to the court record.
  — Ryan Oehrli, Charlotte Observer, 1 Apr. 2024
• The sergeant took photos of the zip tie binding her wrists and the broken one still attached to her ankle.
  — Tim Dickinson, Rolling Stone, 17 Dec. 2022
• After stints in the stations that patrol downtown and southwest L.A., she was promoted to sergeant in 2006 and went to work in the Harbor area.
  — Libor Jany, Los Angeles Times, 18 Sep. 2024
• The show pairs an aristocratic police detective and a maverick sergeant from a working class background.
  — Max Goldbart, Deadline, 16 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Nov 2024