How to Use conscript in a Sentence

conscript

1 of 2 noun

• But conscripts still flow from the region, lured by the money paid.
  — Roger Cohen Nanna Heitmann, New York Times, 6 Aug. 2023
• Nawi isn’t a conscript; as Nanisca makes clear, joining the Agojie is a choice.
  — Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2022
• A year later, 19 army conscripts were killed when a train derailed near Cairo.
  — Dana Khraiche, Bloomberg.com, 11 Aug. 2017
• Concerns are growing that the protest could trickle down to young conscripts as well.
  — Tia Goldenberg, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Mar. 2023
• The say the blast, which took place on Sunday on a road just south of the coastal city of el-Arish city, also wounded four conscripts.
  — Ashraf Sweilam, The Seattle Times, 20 Aug. 2018
• Unlike the Swedish system, in which conscripts serve for nine to 12 months, the French version, said Mr Macron, would now last from three to six months.
  — The Economist, 1 Mar. 2018
• The next month, he was outraged after his cousin, a new conscript, was sent to Idlib Province, where the army was losing ground.
  — Anne Barnard and Hwaida Saad, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2016
• Meanwhile, the military also shared that one of the dead was an officer and the other was a conscript.
  — Paul Goldman, NBC News, 16 Mar. 2018
• And for many guys here, the gateway to face serums and 10-step skin-care regimens is their time as military conscripts.
  — Jonathan Cheng, WSJ, 23 Aug. 2018
• The story of Hitler Youth teens shooting elderly German conscripts in Berlin who told them to abandon the fight in 1945 comes to mind.
  — Andrew Doran, National Review, 14 July 2017
• The movies have been conscripts in this continuing culture war and to look back at 1968 is to understand what has and hasn’t changed.
  — New York Times, 17 May 2018
• None of the dozen conscripts were seriously injured, an army spokesman told the Helsinki Times.
  — Fox News, 11 Sep. 2019
• Putin had promised that Russian conscripts would not be deployed to Ukraine, like Chistyakova's son, thousands have been.
  — Patrick Reevell, ABC News, 24 Feb. 2023
• As a young conscript four decades ago, Kang was a machine gunner stationed near the border with North Korea.
  — Max Kim, Los Angeles Times, 27 Nov. 2023
• Before becoming a journalist Mr. Lapierre served as a conscript in the French Army.
  — Clay Risen, New York Times, 9 Dec. 2022
• There is the makings of a Russian offensive under way, with some of those hundreds of thousands of conscripts who got brought in.
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 17 Feb. 2023
• This year is an election year, and the Kremlin can ill afford large numbers of its young conscripts returning in body bags.
  — Andrew S. Bowen, Washington Post, 2 Feb. 2018
• News of the rebellion had spread rapidly, carried in part by fleeing conscripts, and nearby towns were in a panic.
  — Trevor Paulhus, Smithsonian, 19 Sep. 2019
• In August 2023, Putin signed a law to close the escape hatch by setting up a new system for conscripts: they will no longer be allowed to leave Russia if drafted.
  — Tuvshinzaya Gantulga, Foreign Affairs, 6 Oct. 2023
• Others among the dead Russian soldiers were a captain found in a nearby building, and an 18-year-old conscript in the garden of a house who had been shot, Sergeant Soroka said.
  — New York Times, 4 Apr. 2022
• Rouhani served as a military conscript under the shah though opposing him.
  — Jon Gambrell, The Seattle Times, 21 May 2017
• One night last year at an army barracks in Tehran, a tormented young conscript rousted his sergeant from bed and marched him outside at gunpoint.
  — Shashank Bengali, latimes.com, 28 Sep. 2017
• But these conscripts were wretched, and the volunteers were little better.
  — David Grann, The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2023
• Army conscripts were deployed to clear paths for the emergency vehicles.
  — Dan Bilefsky, Orange County Register, 19 Jan. 2017
• Click through the photo gallery to see images from this year’s public lottery, which is taking place amid a scandal involving the death of an army conscript.
  — Bay Area News Group, The Mercury News, 5 Apr. 2017
• The money saved will be spent on equipment for Russian conscripts and volunteers fighting in the conflict, City Hall said on its website.
  — Bloomberg.com, 7 Oct. 2022
• Their favourite recruits are said to be Cubans, who typically have military training (as conscripts in the Cuban army).
  — The Economist, 18 July 2019
• The Americans in the fall had often faced poorly trained Bolshevik conscripts.
  — Michael M. Phillips, WSJ, 9 Nov. 2018
• Where cultural walls are now being erected to conscript and steal free speech in America.
  — Fox News, 10 Apr. 2018
• Twice a year, including starting in April, the Russian military conscripts young men for one year of training and service.
  — Alan Yuhas, New York Times, 31 Mar. 2023

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conscript

2 of 2 verb

• The government is conscripting men for the army.
• He was conscripted into the army.
• Others have been conscripted to its cause since the start of the invasion.
  — Tariq Panja, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2023
• This park was conscripted to public use in the city’s 1686 charter.
  — Elisa Albert, Longreads, 7 May 2018
• The fear is that big banks will be conscripted into service again and again.
  — The Economist, 5 Sep. 2019
• Five men told The Times that they had been abducted by soldiers and forcibly conscripted into the army since the coup.
  — Sui-Lee Wee, New York Times, 19 Dec. 2023
• He and Garcia conscripted their wives, Anna and Casie, along with the friends and family who’d helped with the pop-ups.
  — Dominic Armato, azcentral, 26 Feb. 2020
• With all the men at the front, able-bodied women were conscripted to go to the forests in summer to collect wood for fuel.
  — Alan Philps, Town & Country, 5 July 2023
• The announcement said those conscripted in the fall campaign would not be sent to the battlefield in Ukraine.
  — Natalia Abbakumova, Washington Post, 29 Sep. 2023
• The bus was stopped by a soldier, looking to conscript his young countrymen into the army.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 26 Sep. 2021
• Doris has been conscripted into the kind of caretaking that can tax even the most trained of adults, one that has robbed her of space for growing up.
  — Lisa Kennedy, Variety, 25 Jan. 2024
• Schwarzenegger first learned to drive a tank in Austria in the 1960s, when he was conscripted into the Austrian Army.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 30 July 2018
• Some women will conscript an older relative to fake an ulcer and ask for it over the counter.
  — Sarah Parvini, latimes.com, 29 Oct. 2017
• Thousands of young men in the separatist regions have been conscripted to fight against Ukraine.
  — Simon Shuster, Time, 22 June 2023
• Many of the players had, at least on the Argentine side, friends or relatives who had been conscripted, maybe even lost their life.
  — CNN, 11 June 2018
• When the civil war resumed, after the Second World War, both sides conscripted men.
  — Jiayang Fan, The New Yorker, 17 June 2019
• The back seats are fully usable for real adults, with none of the feeling that you’ve been conscripted into a bobsled team.
  — Ezra Dyer, Popular Mechanics, 24 Aug. 2018
• The table stood alone, picked clean of its chairs, as McCall conscripted spare seating here and there to pile into her living room.
  — Melissa Brown, USA TODAY, 21 Aug. 2023
• After two years at Adelphi, Davis was conscripted into the Army.
  — Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 27 Aug. 2019
• During Vietnam, when the Army conscripted about 2 million men, the draft became almost as big an issue as the war.
  — Rick Hampson, USA TODAY, 26 Apr. 2017
• Angry words can be overheard in the town’s square and, eventually, all are conscripted into the Nazi army.
  — Jake Coyle, Detroit Free Press, 19 Dec. 2019
• More than two million people have fled their homes, tens of thousands have been killed and many more injured, abducted and conscripted to join the fight.
  — Dionne Searcey, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2019
• Google is being conscripted as the potential hub of one of our greatest needs—Covid-19 testing.
  — Steven Levy, Wired, 20 Mar. 2020
• He was eventually conscripted into the Nazi army, but refused to swear an oath to Hitler even on penalty of death.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 14 Dec. 2019
• The Confederacy conscripted all white men between the ages of 18 to 35.
  — Cliff Pinckard, cleveland.com, 16 Apr. 2018
• Like his parents, young Friedrich despised Nazism, but was conscripted twice: first to aid the Luftwaffe in air defense and later, in 1944, into the Wehrmacht.
  — David Allen, New York Times, 17 Feb. 2023
• Rather than conscript her audience to a new aesthetic a day (Cottagecore!
  — Sam Reed, Glamour, 25 Sep. 2023
• Rebel and state armies alike conscripted farm laborers who joined refugees in spreading disease.
  — Dagomar Degroot, Washington Post, 19 Feb. 2018
• In 2001, when the planes hit the World Trade Center, he was conscripted, owing to his language skills, into delivering the live on-air report.
  — Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2023
• But households from poor to rich did face some possibility that a child might be conscripted and sent into harm’s way.
  — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 21 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 28 May 2024