petty officer
a noncommissioned U.S. Navy rank with three grades.
one of the minor officers on a merchant ship, as a boatswain or carpenter.
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How to use petty officer in a sentence
petty officer Jonathan Keefe later said, “It was like moon dust, or snow, and we were sinking in.”
The Night the SEALS Captured the Butcher of Fallujah | Patrick Robinson | November 11, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTHe was awarded the Navy Cross for combat heroism in 2006 and retired as a petty officer 1st Class in 2007.
He marched up to the quarterdeck, stood at attention, and said, “petty officer Klauser reporting for duty.”
The petty officer—he was a petty officer, though Sara Lee had never heard the term—was inclined to be suspicious.
The Amazing Interlude | Mary Roberts RinehartHe did his year's service as a petty officer and went through the discipline and hardships of the common marine.
Ways of War and Peace | Delia Austrian
There arose cries and shoutings without, and a petty officer burst into the hut, puffed with importance and pride.
The Island of Enchantment | Justus Miles FormanThe petty officer had told him that he appeared to be quite sick when he came on board the night before.
Stand By The Union | Oliver OpticThe petty officer himself, chancing to look to port, suddenly saw a submarine on the surface….
The Story of Our Submarines | John Graham Bower
British Dictionary definitions for petty officer
a noncommissioned officer in a naval service, comparable in rank to a sergeant in an army or marine corps
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