private first class

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a soldier ranking above a private and below a corporal or specialist fourth class in the U.S. Army, and above a private and below a lance corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps.

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Origin of private first class

An Americanism dating back to 1910–15

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How to use private first class in a sentence

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I was drawn to The Class for different reasons—chiefly, the pipe dream of achieving a tighter and tauter backside.
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But since those rosy scenarios were first floated, the California political scene has grown more crowded.
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Eric Garcetti succeeded Villaraigosa and has received high marks in his first year and a half on the job.
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This is the first and principal point at which we can stanch the wastage of teaching energy that now goes on.
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He was converted and baptized, and was the first Hebrew instructor at Harvard college.
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And I have not had the first morsel of food prepared from this grain offered me since I reached the shores of Europe.
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Now first we shall want our pupil to understand, speak, read and write the mother tongue well.
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In treble, second and fourth, the first change is a dodge behind; and the second time the treble leads, there's a double Bob.
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