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
A year later, he laid down his job in a grocery store in Perry and enlisted as a private soldier.
From Time Magazine Archive
In 1806 John Colter, a private soldier in the Lewis & Clark expedition, came back with stories of hot fountains and pools of yellow, pink and green mud too fantastic to be believed.
From Time Magazine Archive
Even the lowliest private soldier had decided that the war would not be fought in the trenches again.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
