How to Use staff sergeant in a Sentence

staff sergeant

noun
  • Storey, who at the time was a very young staff sergeant, accepted the charge.
    — Allie Torgan, CNN, 11 Oct. 2024
  • The coming rains, though, will turn the earth to knee-deep mud, says a staff sergeant in the army.
    — The Economist, 4 June 2020
  • Those leaders can range from a staff sergeant to a colonel, Holland said.
    — Rose L. Thayer, Anchorage Daily News, 28 July 2022
  • Killeen police said he hasn't been seen since Monday when his staff sergeant dropped him off at home.
    — chicagotribune.com, 23 Aug. 2020
  • Morgan held the rank of staff sergeant prior to his promotion.
    — Janelle Ash , Larry Fink, FOXNews.com, 20 Jan. 2026
  • According to Hong, because of his rank as a staff sergeant, he wasn’t forced to work.
    — oregonlive, 11 Nov. 2019
  • He was last seen Monday when his staff sergeant dropped him off at his Killeen home, police said.
    — Kelsey Bradshaw, USA TODAY, 21 Aug. 2020
  • Rowland left the military in 1989 with the rank of staff sergeant.
    — Stephanie Farr, Philly.com, 25 Apr. 2018
  • Sanchez did 20 years, attended radio repair school and rose to the rank of staff sergeant.
    — Paula Allen, San Antonio Express-News, 24 Feb. 2018
  • The 35-year-old staff sergeant sat at a table doing paperwork.
    — George Stanley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 11 Nov. 2021
  • The staff sergeant next to him was decapitated and the gunner between them would lose his legs.
    — Debbie Cenziper, ProPublica, 14 Nov. 2022
  • After the world’s great cities fall, a Marine staff sergeant and his platoon make a last stand against alien invaders.
    — Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2021
  • He was last seen by his staff sergeant on August 17, when a sergeant dropped him off at his residence.
    — Christine Pelisek, PEOPLE.com, 2 Sep. 2020
  • Led by a resourceful staff sergeant, the group face the otherworldly challenge with grit and courage.
    — Selena Barrientos, Good Housekeeping, 23 Sep. 2022
  • The women, dressed and ready, form a line outside their dormitories, where a staff sergeant waits to inspect them.
    — Aeyliya Husain, Foreign Affairs, 17 Aug. 2014
  • Inna and Alexiy, whose son Pavel, a Ukrainian staff sergeant, was killed in March.
    — Washington Post, 25 Apr. 2022
  • In 2013, Schmidt was honorably discharged as a staff sergeant.
    — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Sep. 2019
  • Arnold, who has short red hair and a jocular vibe, is a former Army staff sergeant who served in Iraq and Afghanistan.
    — Deborah Netburn, latimes.com, 9 July 2019
  • Knauss was a member of the Army's 82nd Airborne division and a staff sergeant.
    — CBS News, 31 Aug. 2021
  • Grossman didn’t mention that Uri, a staff sergeant, was a member of a tank crew in the thick of the fighting in southern Lebanon.
    — Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2021
  • Engineer-gunner Omer Duquette, a staff sergeant, sat with his mates in Crew 12.
    — Sig Christenson, San Antonio Express-News, 8 Sep. 2021
  • Just a few years ago, Brandon was an Army staff sergeant who worked with K9 dog units in Iraq to sniff out explosives.
    — Meghan Daum, Redbook, 12 Nov. 2012
  • One year later, he was transferred to the airbase at Sioux Falls, South Dakota and named chief clerk with the rank of staff sergeant.
    — Mort Mazor, sun-sentinel.com, 1 Nov. 2019
  • After the battle, the Marine Corps promoted Reckless to the rank of staff sergeant, the first and last time that has been done for a horse.
    — Marylou Tousignant, Washington Post, 18 Nov. 2019
  • He was promoted to the rank of staff sergeant after his death, the IDF said in a news release Saturday evening.
    — Claire Parker, Washington Post, 3 June 2023
  • Chen, a staff sergeant who served in the Armored Corps, had been stationed at the Gaza border on October 7.
    — Christian Edwards, CNN Money, 4 Nov. 2025
  • Hillel Yaniv was a staff sergeant who served in the Israeli Navy and was in a study program at a religious seminary at the time he was killed.
    — Isabel Kershner, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2023
  • Pennington will be posthumously promoted to staff sergeant, the Pentagon said.
    — Lauren Penington, Denver Post, 9 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • An Army sergeant, an Army staff sergeant and another soldier have all been fined after being convicted in Colorado on poaching charges.
    — Jesse Sarles, CBS News, 20 Jan. 2026

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