"You might make sergeant yet, just for bringing me home."
Late thirties, ought to have made sergeant by now but probably didn't want to.
Back then I was pretty green, too, just a beat cop hoping to make sergeant.
In 1655 he was made first sergeant, then later Captain.
To be made sergeant shows that he was not a common man.
If the officer makes sergeant, the most he or she could hope to make after 20 years on patrol would be $53,898.
He made sergeant while his contemporaries were still at the bottom of the ranks.
Make it top sergeant in the old days; except he's dealing always with the brass.
When you were a detective first grade and I was trying to make sergeant?
He'd been with the department for 11 years, making sergeant after only four years on the road.