noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
flight sergeant
sergeant major
staff sergeant
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
recruiting
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Three groups are easy prey to the underclass's recruiting sergeant .
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The recruiting sergeant looked up at him and winked.
young
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When she'd first qualified in forensic medicine he'd been a young sergeant .
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I asked of a young sergeant marching on the flank.
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Saunders was dead, and so was the young sergeant who had questioned them.
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At this point the young sergeant , David Evans, strolled into the room.
■ NOUN
army
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Eye witnesses identified the gunman as an army sergeant .
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Now, detectives are investigating the possibility that a fourth woman may have been slain by the retired Army sergeant .
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Phil Silvers had made an institution for himself out of the rank of an army sergeant .
desk
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I drove to the nearest police station, handed in the knife and told the desk sergeant my story.
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A desk sergeant , after booking somebody for a crime, would ask him if he could make bond.
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He would leave the packet open so that the desk sergeant saw they were not getting a parcel bomb.
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I was called from the incident room by the desk sergeant who recognised her.
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An equinoctial energy appeared to have got the desk sergeant at Police Headquarters on the move beyond the call of duty.
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He explained to the desk sergeant that he was worried that his sister had been murdered by her husband, Joseph Shill.
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The desk sergeant contacted Superintendent Misty Hayes and a missing person enquiry commenced.
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The desk sergeant was listening to her headset.
detective
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He was asked to wait and then shown into a room where a detective sergeant prepared to take a statement from him.
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But the venture threatens her romance with Detective sergeant William Pigram.
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Lucky the geezer didn't know what a detective sergeant gets paid or he might have got suspicious.
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Saw police detective sergeant who was very understanding.
drill
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It rapidly deflated his pompous stance and produced an about-face smart enough to have pleased a drill sergeant .
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The drill sergeant is still throwing glower-glances at him.
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A seventh Army drill sergeant at Aberdeen was charged Tuesday with rape, extortion, obstruction of justice and other offenses.
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My exam arrived the day my drill sergeant put his hand in my pants.
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And, recently, Aberdeen drill sergeants and Naval Academy midshipmen have been among its most celebrated inmates.
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Now I see that I started out as a drill sergeant .
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Like at boot camp, soldiers going through specialized training are completely dependent on their drill sergeants and instructors.
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Already it has led to courts-martial and suspensions of dozens of drill sergeants and instructors.
major
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Never mind that old sergeant major of yours won't lie down, you're not doin' any ironing.
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Why would the command sergeant major want to talk to you?
staff
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Turner exchanged a glance with his staff sergeant .
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Carter, a staff sergeant who worked in a Los Angeles tire facility after the war, passed away in 1963.
■ VERB
ask
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She asked for the duty sergeant .
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I asked of a young sergeant marching on the flank.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He would leave the packet open so that the desk sergeant saw they were not getting a parcel bomb.
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I was called from the incident room by the desk sergeant who recognised her.
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Later that afternoon the duty sergeant allowed him an hour off to dig the grave in which they would bury Private Prescott.
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Reeves continued his military career, was promoted to sergeant and was often stationed overseas while his wife remained in Copperas Cove.
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Smith admits he did wrong by committing adultery with the wife of a Marine sergeant , while the enlisted man was overseas.
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The sergeant felt uneasy while he and Blanche stood on the drawbridge.
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Two policemen are responsible for community relations and two policewomen for juvenile liaison, one each of whom is a sergeant .