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n. (drill sergeant English)
Usage examples of "drill sergeants".
Powell answered, as humbly as if speaking to one of the Camp Mangum drill sergeants who had turned the 47th North Carolina from a collection of raw companies into a regiment that marched and maneuvered like a single living creature.
Behind them the drill sergeants were chivvying the other recruits who had failed to keep up.
Too restless to immerse myself in- minutiae better left to experienced drill sergeants, I had little to do but wander the halls, an awesome figure because of my reputation, but essentially useless.
He ran into one of his drill sergeants at the gas station, and was surprisingly disappointed when the sergeant told him that he didnt remember him at all.
This was gutter fighting, something learned in a hard childhood and never taught by drill sergeants.
His expression wavers from bitter to savage and his voice is rough, reminding me of career drill sergeants I have seen drilling new recruits.
Remember all those thrice-cursed drill sergeants breathing down your necks!
Yes, and remember the cardboard masquerading as food they served us after the drill sergeants had finished with us?