C.O.
Example Sentences
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Instead, it was “so many people screaming, screaming to talk to each other. Screaming for assistance: ‘Yo, C.O., my toilet flooded.
From Slate • May 19, 2025
“A C.O. had told me that I was never going home and that really got to me,” he said of one occasion.
From New York Times • Dec. 17, 2021
An older, more-seasoned lifeboat pilot, future station C.O.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 18, 2019
Over time, draft boards came to resemble freshman philosophy seminars in their attempts to decide who did and did not qualify for C.O. status.
From The New Yorker • Oct. 22, 2018
When he looked behind him and saw a wobbling, pixilated mass of men doing their best to imitate a line, he barked, “Follow me, hogs. Follow your C.O. and that is an order.”
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
