How to Use petty officer in a Sentence

petty officer

noun

• That is a lot of dead fictional petty officers being found by that white rail fence.
  — Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 6 Mar. 2025
• Kelly attained the rank of first class petty officer, Rachal said.
  — Anna Marum, OregonLive.com, 10 Jan. 2018
• Walsh was responsible for hiking in to get it and killed the petty officer who spotted him.
  — Sara Netzley, EW.com, 11 Oct. 2022
• He was promoted to the equivalent of a petty officer after the rules were changed.
  — Bob Egelko, San Francisco Chronicle, 23 Sep. 2021
• Smith, who reached the rank of petty officer, dropped by the restaurant every day for seven months and bought a diamond ring.
  — Sig Christenson, San Antonio Express-News, 28 May 2018
• The citation notes that the petty officer encountered automatic weapons fire from a bunker about from him.
  — Tom Vanden Brook, USA TODAY, 24 May 2018
• He was demoted from chief petty officer to a 1st class petty officer.
  — Robert Burns, The Denver Post, 24 Nov. 2019
• Drake had been selected for promotion and authorized to wear the rank of a second class petty officer, but had not yet been advanced.
  — Courant Community, 11 Sep. 2017
• The commander and the petty officer worked to restart the engines, to no avail, as Fletcher flew the aircraft and tried to find a safe landing.
  — Marisa Garcia, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
• The violence came to an end when an army veteran took down the shooter, aided by a Navy petty officer and a drag performer at the club.
  — Andi Babineau, CNN, 18 June 2024
• Williams is a petty officer at Naval Air Station Jacksonville.
  — Washington Post, 25 Nov. 2019
• At least four female victims have taken their own lives in the past eight years, including a ​navy ​chief petty officer who was found dead in her ​apartment in August.
  — New York Times, 15 Oct. 2021
• His father, a naval petty officer, played the clarinet, his sister played the piano, and his older brother was a violinist.
  — CBS News, 26 May 2026
• His father, a naval petty officer, played the clarinet, his sister played the piano, and his older brother was a violinist.
  — ABC News, 25 May 2026
• At the time, Wei was a petty officer who held a security clearance and worked as a machinist’s mate aboard the Essex.
  — Alex Riggins, Mercury News, 21 Aug. 2025
• At the time, Wei was a petty officer who held a security clearance and worked as a machinist’s mate aboard the Essex.
  — Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Jan. 2026
• At the time, Wei was a petty officer who held a security clearance and worked as a machinist’s mate aboard the Essex.
  — Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Aug. 2025
• The Coast Guard petty officer who answered the phone offered to send someone over, but Hathaway declined.
  — Outside Online, 17 Apr. 2018
• Richardson credited a team of female sailors – mostly petty officers –for helping to craft the new regulations.
  — Joel Shannon, USA TODAY, 12 July 2018
• When a petty officer's found dead at a campsite bathroom, the team follows the trail to a nearby lake, where an extremely attractive, extremely naked man is splashing away.
  — Sara Netzley, EW.com, 11 Oct. 2022
• Brianna, who is a petty officer stationed with the Navy in Jacksonville, is staying on the Navy base, Williams said.
  — Victoria Albert, CBS News, 11 Nov. 2019
• As captain of the foretop, Peglar would have been a petty officer responsible for overseeing sailors who maintained the sails and rigging of the ship’s foremast.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 12 May 2026
• The petty officer, who worked as a construction electrician, is charged in the indictment with conspiracy and receipt of a bribe by a public official.
  — Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Aug. 2023
• Chief petty officer Richard Jongordon, known to his shipmates as Chief Johnny, stood with his fellow sailors to the last man — which turned out to be him.
  — Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 Mar. 2021
• As ensign, Finnegan worked as a division officer, overseeing the work of a crew of seamen and petty officers in a specific division.
  — Kylie Martin, Detroit Free Press, 10 Sep. 2023
• Then in the present, Billy's nephew Sean turns out to be the prime suspect in the shooting death of possum-loving petty officer Danna Calley.
  — Sara Netzley, EW.com, 15 Mar. 2022
• Jason Jenkins, a petty officer 3rd class on the Roosevelt, held his 2-month-old daughter Sage for the first time after walking off the brow of the ship.
  — Andrew Dyer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 May 2021
• Brianna Williams is a petty officer stationed with the Navy in Jacksonville, but most of her family is in Alabama.
  — CBS News, 8 Nov. 2019
• With her wereher Navy petty officer husband, Mark, also 29, and two sons, Joseph, 5, and Matthew, 2.
  — John Wilkens, sandiegouniontribune.com, 17 Jan. 2018
• White, a former Navy petty officer, spends much time during these months posting videos of the adult eagles' daily life, which involves a lot of nest repair and bringing food back for one another and the eaglets.
  — Jennifer Bolton, Houston Chronicle, 24 Jan. 2018