How to Use enlisted in a Sentence

enlisted

adjective
  • Fleet Week concludes with a pair of events designed to honor enlisted troops.
    — Carl Prine, sandiegouniontribune.com, 14 Oct. 2017
  • Manning appeared at court martial in the uniform of an enlisted man.
    — Tom Vanden Brook, USA TODAY, 14 May 2017
  • The chief master sergeant is the Air Force's top enlisted leader.
    — Tara Copp, ajc, 7 Feb. 2023
  • The two senior officers and senior enlisted sailor have been removed from their posts.
    — Jeanette Steele, sandiegouniontribune.com, 22 Aug. 2017
  • The Army has clarified the guidelines for styling hair for enlisted men and women.
    — Julia Gomez, USA Today, 16 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • Officers and enlisted men grouped around nearest radios.
    — Orlando Sentinel Staff, The Orlando Sentinel, 8 June 2026
  • The enlisted men who received the medal for valor on the European front include Cpl.
    — Richard Goldstein, New York Times, 29 June 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • An enlisted officer, Guillen went missing from Fort Hood on April 22.
    — Houston Chronicle, 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
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • DePaola achieved the highest enlisted rank in the Marine Corps, serving over 25+ years.
    — Hartford Courant, 14 Sep. 2022
  • Most boards consider hundreds, if not thousands, of officers for promotion, and senior enlisted troops also come before similar boards.
    — Davis Winkie, USA Today, 14 Oct. 2025
  • 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
  • Ron Lerch, the Space Force's senior enlisted advisor for intelligence.
    — Robert Pearlman, ArsTechnica, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Van Dyke joined the Army in 2008 and, in 2023, was promoted to the rank of master sergeant, the second-highest enlisted rank in the Army, according to the indictment.
    — Hallie Golden, Fortune, 24 Apr. 2026
  • Darren Heller, the AFCENT Battle Lab senior enlisted leader.
    — Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 17 Dec. 2025
  • Stiles, who now lives in Horizon West, knew her condition would disqualify her from the Navy, and so did the most senior enlisted sailor on Bush, Command Master Chief Huben Phillips.
    — Noelle Wiehe, The Orlando Sentinel, 17 Aug. 2025

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