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conscript
Example Sentences
At mobilization points across Russia, the call-up of peasant conscripts often turned into drunken and murderous riots.
California is conscripting everyday people in its privacy law enforcement war.
They’re assisted on the farm by Polish captives who have been conscripted as Zivilarbeiters, or civilian workers, though in reality they are slave laborers.
With the Vietnam War-era draft still in place, opponents immediately zeroed in on the potential for conscripting women, seeing it as one of their best arguments against equal rights.
When they descended into a slower number, she successfully conscripted him onto the parquet.
It was 1951 and I was a conscript serving in the Royal Air Force.
Tribes killing their neighbors and burning their fields were now depriving the Romans of soldiers to conscript and produce to tax.
By mid-to-late evening, there was overwhelming evidence that Russia was using a mix of mercenary and conscript forces.
The answer, it seems, has to do with the plan to conscript haredi (ultra-Orthodox) youth into the Israeli army.
The young conscript seemed to fill the head of Mademoiselle St. Sillery.
The Argentine sailor is a land-conscript, laboriously taught an unfamiliar art, which he learns wonderfully well.
It was too vast for a citizen, and the locality was no longer sufficiently refined for a conscript father.
It is these which explain the two million volunteers which in August, 1914, went to swell the huge German conscript armies.
The genius of the race takes the lover conscript and makes him a soldier in life's battalions.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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