How to Use chief petty officer in a Sentence

chief petty officer

noun

• Besides the prison time, his sentence strips him of his pay and his rank of chief petty officer.
  — Ben Finley, USA TODAY, 26 Jan. 2021
• Grambo is a former chief petty officer who served in the Navy for 20 years.
  — Adam Thompson, CBS News, 17 Nov. 2025
• Gallagher, then a chief petty officer, was reduced in rank to E-6 and sentenced to four months time served.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Aug. 2019
• Gallagher was demoted from chief petty officer to petty officer first class and fined two months' wages.
  — Alex Johnson, NBC News, 28 Nov. 2019
• Kevin Graham was a chief petty officer, who served 22 years in active and reserve duty.
  — Tonya Alanez, Sun-Sentinel.com, 27 Mar. 2018
• He was demoted from chief petty officer to a 1st class petty officer.
  — Robert Burns, The Denver Post, 24 Nov. 2019
• Bell, a former chief petty officer in the Navy, has been known for making inflammatory statements.
  — Washington Post, 8 Mar. 2022
• The Navy revokes Cosby’s title of honorary chief petty officer.
  — Cnn Editorial Research, CNN, 24 June 2020
• His father was a Navy chief petty officer, and he was raised primarily by an aunt and uncle in Harborcreek, Pa.
  — Matt Schudel, Washington Post, 24 Oct. 2017
• Police arrested Herman Williams, a Navy chief petty officer, four days the discovery of the body and charged him with murder.
  — Clifford Ward, Chicago Tribune, 6 Sep. 2022
• The name of the sailor, a chief petty officer who was the first aboard the aircraft carrier to die from the virus, is being withheld until relatives are notified, the Navy said.
  — Ben Kesling, WSJ, 13 Apr. 2020
• In addition, the Navy is examining one charge of dereliction of duty against a chief petty officer, a senior enlisted leader on the ship.
  — Author: Dan Lamothe, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Jan. 2018
• Gallagher was demoted from chief petty officer to a 1st class petty officer after his conviction by a military jury.
  — Robert Burns, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Nov. 2019
• Feller participated in combat operations in the Pacific and European theaters while serving as a chief petty officer aboard the USS Alabama.
  — Andrew Baggarly, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2025