How to Use master sergeant in a Sentence

master sergeant

noun
  • The 38-year-old Army master sergeant has pleaded not guilty.
    — Jon Wertheim, CBS News, 17 May 2026
  • The 38-year-old Army master sergeant has pleaded not guilty.
    — Jon Wertheim, CBS News, 28 June 2026
  • Miller rose the ranks quickly for his leadership skills and became a master sergeant.
    — Monivette Cordeiro, orlandosentinel.com, 7 Nov. 2019
  • Someone in green camouflage fatigues with black master sergeant stripes jumped out and grabbed a cardboard box.
    — Mike Masterson, Arkansas Online, 24 Apr. 2021
  • Clayton, 42, was a master sergeant in the police department at the time of her death.
    — Gregory Lemos and Kay Jones, CNN, 8 Dec. 2021
  • Walz, a National Guard master sergeant, had just returned from a deployment to Italy.
    — Orlando Sentinel and South Florida Sun Sentinel Editorial Boards, Orlando Sentinel, 10 Aug. 2024
  • Clayton, 42, was a master sergeant in the police department at the time of her death and was posthumously promoted to lieutenant.
    — Tina Burnside and Dakin Andone, CNN, 3 Mar. 2022
  • Clayton, 42, was a master sergeant in the police department at the time of her death; she was posthumously promoted to lieutenant.
    — Eric Levenson, CNN, 23 Oct. 2019
  • Whittle is a master sergeant in the Oklahoma Air National Guard.
    — Fox News, 28 May 2018
  • Jack Goncalves was promoted from master sergeant and will be stationed in Bridgeport as commanding officer.
    — Ruth Bruno, courant.com, 26 May 2018
  • Estanez Landa, of Elgin, was taken to an area hospital with injuries that were not life-threatening and the master sergeant was not hurt.
    — Rosemary Sobol, chicagotribune.com, 16 Oct. 2021
  • An Army master sergeant was found dead last week in his off-post home near Fairbanks, the fifth soldier to die in the state in less than two months, the Army said Friday.
    — Wyatt Olson, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Jan. 2022
  • His stepfather was a master sergeant in the 102nd Intelligence Wing, the same unit Teixeira later joined.
    — John R. Ellement, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Apr. 2023
  • Teixeira's stepfather, Thomas Dufault, served for more than three decades as a master sergeant from the same unit, the 102nd Intelligence Wing.
    — Mike Brest, Washington Examiner, 14 Apr. 2023
  • He was promoted to be the Special Warfare Training Group's chief airborne instructor in 2016, and more recently to master sergeant.
    — Francisco Guzman and Brian Ries, CNN, 16 Jan. 2020
  • 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
  • In 2009, an off-duty police sergeant with hearing loss, from nearby Richmond, was pulled over in Rosenberg, according to a federal lawsuit that the master sergeant, Robert Eiteman, filed.
    — Tim Stelloh, NBC News, 6 Aug. 2022
  • Timothy Hennis, a former master sergeant who worked on parachutes in the 82nd Airborne Division, was convicted in 1986 in North Carolina state court of raping a woman and murdering her and two of her daughters.
    — Steve Beynon, ABC News, 6 June 2026
  • Van Dyke, a 38-year-old North Carolina resident stationed at Fort Bragg in Fayetteville, has been an active-duty soldier since 2008 and a master sergeant with US Army Special Forces since 2023, according to the indictment.
    — ArsTechnica, 24 Apr. 2026
  • The charges against Spagnuolo come just a little more than a month after a US Army Special Forces master sergeant was charged with using classified information about the operation to capture then-Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro to make $400,000 betting on Polymarket.
    — Bloomberg, Mercury News, 28 May 2026

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