privates

Example Sentences

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What, Henry asks, “have kings, that privates have not too, save ceremony, save general ceremony?”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 9, 2026

Aircraft engineers can get £30,000 if they sign up for a further three years, with privates and lance corporals eligible for £8,000 for four years.

From BBC • Jun. 21, 2025

They’re going to put aspartame in this possibly-causing-cancer category, along with, oh, putting talcum powder on your privates, or working in a dry cleaner.

From Slate • Jun. 29, 2023

He said that those freed included 11 officers and 85 privates and noncommissioned officers.

From New York Times • Oct. 17, 2022

One night I played at a ball held for privates, petty officers, and their camp followers in a factory once devoted to the rendering of fish-oil.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson