noncom

Example Sentences

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Buzzy is the comical yet handsome noncom — rhymes with rom-com — sent to fetch the nice and naughty lists.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 25, 2020

As we played golf, I caught Flower up on a few other strands, including some gleaned by a former noncom from "down the Delta" who was working as a hotel interpreter.

From Golf Digest • Sep. 13, 2010

Exclaimed one former Wehrmacht noncom: "Why, they're practically better than the Prussians!"

From Time Magazine Archive

In wrinkled fatigue uniforms, with packs on their backs, they pile through mud and brambles, scrape out fox holes and rifle pits whenever their "noncom" gives the word.

From Time Magazine Archive

The neatly dressed soldier shrugged and asked the noncom who worked with him.

From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers