How to Use recruit in a Sentence

recruit

1 of 2 verb

• I recruited my brother to drive us to the concert.
• He was recruited by the army after high school.
• We recruited a crew of volunteers to help us.
• She recruited four friends to distribute food to the homeless with her.
• Some parents don't think the military should be recruiting from high schools.
• College football coaches spend a lot of time recruiting.
• College football coaches spend a lot of time recruiting high school athletes.
• Public schools are recruiting new teachers.
• Says coaches can use the time to go out and recruit in the area ahead of the game.
  — Matt Stahl | [e-mail], al, 14 Sep. 2023
• For the last 34 years, has recruited players for his All-Starr Band.
  — Melinda Newman, Billboard, 13 Oct. 2023
• Young women like Dot Wilkinson were recruited straight out of the halls of high school.
  — Denise Kiernan, Rolling Stone, 17 July 2023
• For the first time in its 27 seasons, The Bachelor recruited a man old enough for Medicare to be the face of the franchise.
  — Dianna Mazzone, Allure, 21 Nov. 2023
• And the state has managed, by hook and by crook, to continue recruiting men into the armed forces.
  — Keith Gessen, The New Yorker, 15 Feb. 2024
• Back then, the Tigers had recruited Texas players more heavily as a member of the Big 12, which was based in Texas and had four teams in the state.
  — Brent Schrotenboer, USA TODAY, 19 Aug. 2023
• That off-season, Texas found a new — or at least, newly legal — way to recruit them: cash.
  — Billy Witz, New York Times, 31 Dec. 2023
• But after a 12-20 campaign the coach who recruited him to campus, Nathan Davis, was fired.
  — Akeem Glaspie, The Indianapolis Star, 9 Jan. 2024
• The school began recruiting kids to be a part of the inaugural season in spring 2017.
  — Shelby Dermer, The Enquirer, 7 June 2023
• Two athletes declined to complete the questionnaire, Rainey said, so the school did not recruit them.
  — Kenny Jacoby, USA Today, 13 July 2023
• The model had driven the social work school to recruit more and more students to cover overhead.
  — Matt Hamilton, Los Angeles Times, 11 Nov. 2023
• The team went so far as to recruit fans and locals to help shovel snow in the stadium for $20 an hour ahead of Monday's contest.
  — Rishikesh Rajagopalan, CBS News, 14 Jan. 2024
• The left side is more of a question mark, though Saban and company have recruited the spot well.
  — Matt Stahl | [e-mail], al, 29 July 2023
• Mustafa recruited a cousin to transport some files to Turkey.
  — Ben Taub, The New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2023
• Sanders openly pushed many players out of the program and recruited a wave of transfers.
  — Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 11 Nov. 2023
• So the director once again pivoted, recruiting Doll and Liyah Mitchell to the project to round out her central cast.
  — Elaina Patton, NBC News, 28 July 2023
• Part of the challenge has been trying to recruit another 43 staff to work at the remote base and provide the care that’s needed, Henry said.
  — Sean Maguire, Anchorage Daily News, 24 June 2023
• The company has made attempts to recruit hackney carriage drivers in the past.
  — Helen Chandler-Wilde, Fortune Europe, 29 Nov. 2023
• Blacksmiths were critical to town life in the 19th century, so much so that town founder Joseph Naper recruited one to move to Naperville from Ohio.
  — Steve Metsch and Andrea Field, Chicago Tribune, 26 Jan. 2024
• Ash Arnott, a former assistant coach with the program, coached Joe but kept an eye on the younger Furphy and later recruited him in 2018.
  — Shreyas Laddha, Kansas City Star, 1 Mar. 2024
• Neuralink rival Synchron is recruiting patients for a large-scale clinical trial of its brain chip.
  — Susan Howson, Quartz, 8 Apr. 2024
• Calipari has recruited 50 prospects who played in the McDonald’s All American contest.
  — Richard Davenport, arkansasonline.com, 8 Apr. 2024

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recruit

2 of 2 noun

• She's one of the department's new recruits.
• But their pride in Rex, the top recruit in the class of 2023, is clear.
  — Luca Evans, Los Angeles Times, 6 May 2023
• Marist’s Stephen Brown is one of the top recruits in Illinois in the 2026 class.
  — Steve Millar, Chicago Tribune, 26 Jan. 2024
• The number of recruits dwindled from 28 to just 10 by the end of boot camp.
  — Sam Russek, The New Republic, 20 Oct. 2023
• In Class 57, a great deal is riding on the year’s 28 recruits.
  — Sam Russek, The New Republic, 20 Oct. 2023
• With nine recruits on board, the Aztecs aren’t far behind the pace this year.
  — Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Oct. 2023
• The three-star recruit was the first defensive back in the class to commit.
  — Jr Radcliffe, Journal Sentinel, 6 June 2023
• The Ducks could now be in a position to land the first five-star recruit from the state of Idaho.
  — Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 1 Feb. 2024
• His office said that the move brought in hundreds of recruits from all over the country.
  — Adam Shaw, Fox News, 9 Apr. 2024
• Since then, new coaches have come and gone, and vast sums have been spent on new recruits.
  — Tariq Panja, New York Times, 24 Dec. 2023
• The following year, Domani Jackson was the top recruit in the state.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 4 Aug. 2023
• Afeni Shakur, former leader of a street gang, was one of these recruits.
  — Keisha N. Blain, The New Republic, 3 Aug. 2023
• The 3-star recruit has nearly 40 offers from across the country.
  — Ben Thomas | [e-mail], al, 8 July 2023
• One of Ohio's top 2024 recruits has narrowed his college choice to six schools.
  — Shelby Dermer, The Enquirer, 25 May 2023
• At least one in four recruits who left jail with Mr. Mokin in October 2022 were killed.
  — Oleg Matsnev Gray Beltran, New York Times, 4 Dec. 2023
• The top defensive recruit in Oregon’s 2023 class is the future of the position for the Ducks.
  — oregonlive, 1 Aug. 2023
• The South Carolina recruit won’t catch the Lemont’s all-time leader for strikeouts.
  — Tony Baranek, Chicago Tribune, 8 May 2023
• The recruits, some of whom are young women, are also going to be charged, Bonta said.
  — Ishani Desai, Sacramento Bee, 17 Feb. 2024
• Some now sell weapons to traffickers, join one gang in the fight against another, recruit members from the gangs.
  — Paulina Villegas, Washington Post, 26 Sep. 2023
• Lee is rated the 19th-best defensive lineman and the 97th-best overall recruit in the Dallas area.
  — Greg Riddle, Dallas News, 7 Aug. 2023
• The five-star offensive line recruit was with the program for four years and earned the starting right tackle spot before losing the job.
  — Jr Radcliffe, Journal Sentinel, 2 May 2023
• From camps to game-day invites, seeing a recruit in person can go along way in the process of offering a player.
  — Matt Lofgren, cleveland, 15 Sep. 2023
• Haase’s second class also had three four-star recruits.
  — Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 7 Mar. 2024
• But the former five-star recruit also seems to be embracing every bit of it, and so are his teammates.
  — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 31 Aug. 2023
• His recruits were seen as barring the way for the next generation of graduates from De Toekomst.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2023
• Flowers was once a three-star recruit who didn’t receive a steady stream of offers until his junior year of high school.
  — Trevor Hass, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Apr. 2023
• Zoe Saldaña will play Joe, the station chief who is in charge of training the Lioness program’s young recruits for on-the-ground missions.
  — Vulture, 8 June 2023
• Lame will play a food delivery driver turned CIA recruit who is up against a group of arms dealers in Europe.
  — Adam Wescott, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2024
• Opened in 1917 as a training camp for soldiers, it was used as a recruit training post and prisoner of war camp during World War II.
  — Baltimore Sun, 12 May 2023
• The story chronicles a young basketball recruit and how sports gambling changes the game.
  — Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 2 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024