NOUN
- a noncommissioned officer in the Navy or Coast Guard with a rank comparable to sergeant in the Army
How To Use petty officer In A Sentence
- His maintenance person, an active-duty Navy petty officer, was to be the noncom in charge of keeping the aircraft airworthy until more parts and personnel could be flown in. Day by Day Armageddon: Beyond Exile
- Blatheration!" exclaimed my chum, smacking the butt of his rifle on the deck and making the petty officer who was on the other side of the hatchway jump round in a jiffy, looking marline-spikes in our direction. Young Tom Bowling The Boys of the British Navy
- On his sleeve was the chevron of a petty officer.
- Chief Petty Officer John Strange was badly injured during a missile attack.
- Though their eyes flashed their rage, the German officers raised their hands while a petty officer "frisked" them one after the other. Dave Darrin After The Mine Layers
- Think about a fairly new petty officer or ensign dealing with a new system.
- His launch bar dropped across the shuttle, and a petty officer scurried under the nose of the Hornet to attach the holdback bar. THE SHADOWS OF POWER
- Razzies 'laud' 'Transformers' and Bullock photo: Public Domain/Petty Officer 1st Class Mark O'Donald WN.com - Articles related to The US-Israeli dispute is more comedy than reality
- It had become a bit of a joke for any ensign or petty officer new to rank and ship with him.
- A Petty Officer, with an expression emotionless as that of a traveller in a railway tunnel, sat by the dial manipulating a brass wheel; a few feet away sat a Leading Seaman similarly employed. The Long Trick
