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
  • Last week, the Navy relieved the top two officers on the Fitzgerald and the senior enlisted sailor.
    — Tom Vanden Brook, USA TODAY, 23 Aug. 2017
  • Jim Funk was a 25-year-old enlisted man at home on leave for the 4th of July holiday.
    — David Murray, USA TODAY, 14 Aug. 2023
  • 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
  • Fleet Week concludes with a pair of events designed to honor enlisted troops.
    — Carl Prine, sandiegouniontribune.com, 14 Oct. 2017
  • 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
  • Manning appeared at court martial in the uniform of an enlisted man.
    — Tom Vanden Brook, USA TODAY, 14 May 2017
  • Bryce Benson, would be removed from duty, along with the ship’s second-in-command and the top senior enlisted sailor.
    — Samuel Chamberlain, Fox News, 8 May 2018
  • So our friends at Woman's Day enlisted renaissance man Clinton Kelly to prove that a crisp fold isn't that hard to achieve.
    — Lauren Piro, Good Housekeeping, 11 Feb. 2015
  • 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
  • The military judge sentenced Mathews to 60 days in the brig, a reduction to the lowest enlisted rank and a bad conduct discharge.
    — Carl Prine, sandiegouniontribune.com, 18 Dec. 2017
  • McCain refused to jump ahead of enlisted men and those who had been imprisoned before him.
    — Chris Stirewalt, Fox News, 24 Aug. 2018
  • There are the thigh-high black leather boots worn by enlisted women to protect their legs from mosquitos before they were allowed to wear pants.
    — National Geographic, 25 May 2017
  • 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 two senior officers and senior enlisted sailor have been removed from their posts.
    — Jeanette Steele, sandiegouniontribune.com, 22 Aug. 2017
  • 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
  • Nietor said his client left that world for several years but went back to it for financial reasons after gaining full custody of his young daughter while living on the wages of an enlisted Marine.
    — Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Apr. 2023

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