private soldier
Example Sentences
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One of the officers revealed that although Yurii ranks as a simple private soldier, he basically runs this unit.
From BBC • Sep. 25, 2023
Against the background of military and social collapse in 1870-1 France, we follow the intertwined destinies of the peasant corporal Jean Macquart and the bourgeois lawyer and private soldier Maurice Levasseur.
From The Guardian • Mar. 28, 2011
The poem is by Sir Henry Newbolt, who hymned the public-schoolboy officer to Victorian England in much the same manner as the better known Kipling glorified the private soldier.
From Time Magazine Archive
Tree Army'': The pay of a private soldier is $17.85 per month with $1.50 taken out for laundry.
From Time Magazine Archive
“This is my son, a private soldier, Mr. Secretary—just as I was—a private soldier in the United States Army.”
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
