noncom

Example Sentences

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Buzzy is the comical yet handsome noncom — rhymes with rom-com — sent to fetch the nice and naughty lists.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 25, 2020

As we played golf, I caught Flower up on a few other strands, including some gleaned by a former noncom from "down the Delta" who was working as a hotel interpreter.

From Golf Digest • Sep. 13, 2010

The F.L.N. delegation was headed by Vice Premier Belkacem Krim, a former French army noncom.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Shah's father, known to his subjects as Reza Shah, was an old-style, absolute monarch who rose from noncom to colonel to King, overthrowing Iran's slack-chinned, 130-year-old Qajar dynasty by force of arms.

From Time Magazine Archive

The neatly dressed soldier shrugged and asked the noncom who worked with him.

From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers