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

The Shah's father, known to his subjects as Reza Shah, was an old-style, absolute monarch who rose from noncom to colonel to King, overthrowing Iran's slack-chinned, 130-year-old Qajar dynasty by force of arms.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Are we going to enter Beirut?" asked a noncom.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers