Sentence examples for a probie from inspiring English sources

"I'm fortunate, I'm blessed and I'm here just to learn as a probie," he said.

At Rescue Two, I felt like a probie all over again.

ANTHONY RODRIGUEZ On His Way to a Dream Anthony Rodriguez was a probie and he loved it.

We learn that for one young firefighter, still on probation (a probie, in firehouse vernacular), Sept. 11 was his first and last big fire.

KARL JOSEPH Taking the Ribbing Karl Joseph was a "probie," a probationary firefighter, at Engine Company 207 in downtown Brooklyn after joining the department in October 2000.

One recent afternoon, for example, with alarm bells ringing, a probie announced that he really did not like sliding down the firehouse pole; he was more a stairs man.

"We'd say, 'There hasn't been a good probie here for 12 years, not since Steve Olson,' " said Rob Burmeister, a friend and fellow member of Ladder 3. "He was full of energy.

And he's wearing a "borrowed" chief's uniform, baby powder graying his hair, haranguing a quivering probie (new firefighter).

He proved to be an excellent probie, short for probationary firefighter.

At the firehouse for Ladder 9 and Engine 33 on Great Jones Street off the Bowery, nine firefighters were still missing Friday, including a probationary firefighter, or "probie," just six weeks on the job.

"There's 300 probies out of probie school they're pumping out.