How to Use enlisted in a Sentence

enlisted

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• Just last month, the top enlisted leader in the U.S. Army, Sgt.
  — Anna Mulrine Grobe, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Dec. 2021
• The chief master sergeant is the Air Force's top enlisted leader.
  — Tara Copp, ajc, 7 Feb. 2023
• The Doris Miller avoids this controversy by bearing the name of a sailor, and an enlisted one at that.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 30 Sep. 2020
• That's the senior enlisted man, supposed to be a staff sergeant, but in the post-Vietnam era, a lot of our NCOs had gotten out.
  — CBS News, 23 Oct. 2019
• Cattrall, at the time, enlisted fans' help in finding her brother, but he was later found dead at the age of 55.
  — Lauren Huff, EW.com, 21 Dec. 2022
• But the code that runs the system is still written by enlisted Air Force programmers.
  — Sean Gallagher, Ars Technica, 18 Oct. 2019
• The Navy met its targets for enlisted sailors but came up short about 200 officers.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 14 Oct. 2022
• The enlisted men who received the medal for valor on the European front include Cpl.
  — Richard Goldstein, New York Times, 29 June 2022
• And the enlisted soldier, the only female in her squad, who sat across from me one afternoon in the DFAC, having just come in from outside the wire.
  — Sandra Sidi, The Atlantic, 6 Sep. 2019
• Sketches of a ‘World at War’ The enemy soldier wears a plain enlisted man’s cap with a scarlet band around the bottom.
  — Michael E. Ruane, Washington Post, 31 May 2018
• State police say Fotis Dulos killed her that day and enlisted friends to help cover it up.
  — Washington Post, 10 Jan. 2020
• The enlisted men and women working in the film labs and cataloging the miles of raw footage had agreed to delay their exit from the service until the project was finished.
  — Thomas Doherty, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Feb. 2023
• The ship received its first female crewmember, enlisted sailor Rosemarie Lanam, in 1986, notes the Navy statement.
  — David Kindy, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Jan. 2022
• Lisa Erikson is the most senior enlisted member of the Minnesota Air Guard.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 21 Oct. 2021
• The tradition that the paper would be reported and edited by enlisted men goes back, legend has it, to World War I.
  — Seth Lipsky, WSJ, 7 Sep. 2020
• McCain refused to jump ahead of enlisted men and those who had been imprisoned before him.
  — Chris Stirewalt, Fox News, 24 Aug. 2018
• DePaola achieved the highest enlisted rank in the Marine Corps, serving over 25+ years.
  — Hartford Courant, 14 Sep. 2022
• The Wolf's Den, the enlisted crew's mess, is slightly larger than the wardroom and filled with smaller tables, arranged like a railroad dining car.
  — Jim Wilson, Popular Mechanics, 1 Dec. 2020
• The chief of the boat is the senior enlisted adviser to the commander and the executive officer.
  — NBC News, 5 Nov. 2021
• An enlisted officer, Guillen went missing from Fort Hood on April 22.
  — Houston Chronicle, 30 Sep. 2020
• He had been selected to chief master sergeant, a rank that only 1 percent of the enlisted force makes in any service, but had not been promoted.
  — Sig Christenson, ExpressNews.com, 19 Aug. 2020
• Senator Tom Cotton’s report on the service branch gets a lot right about the upper ranks, but the enlisted side remains in dire need of attention.
  — Luther Ray Abel, National Review, 21 July 2021
• Second-year midshipman Kay Moore entered the Navy after high school as an enlisted sailor.
  — Taylor Deville, baltimoresun.com, 4 Aug. 2021
• The lowest-ranking Marines facing boards are two enlisted men who were staff sergeants in July 2020 — the former platoon sergeant and the vehicle commander of the track that sank.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Feb. 2022
• With your product’s idea in mind, look for similar case studies from enlisted service providers.
  — Vladimir Lugovsky, Forbes, 7 June 2021
• Nonetheless, Trump ordered Spencer to transfer Gallagher from the brig to the equivalent of an enlisted barracks.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 28 Nov. 2019
• Until he was charged, his Air Force career had been on the rise, and he had been selected to become a chief master sergeant — a level achieved by just 1 percent of the enlisted force in any service.
  — Sig Christenson, San Antonio Express-News, 22 Mar. 2021
• The company has pretty much enlisted everyone willing to buy its pricey bikes, and more people are working out at the gym anyway.
  — Tiffany Ap, Quartz, 12 May 2022
• After signing a lease for the space, Novack invested his life savings into the business and enlisted family members to help him get the space ready to open.
  — Megan Becka, cleveland, 12 May 2021
• In the Navy, African Americans comprise 17 percent of the enlisted force but only 5 percent of admirals.
  — John Kroger, Wired, 20 Aug. 2020

Last Updated: 28 May 2024