Example Sentences

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Conscripts are told they can work "from nine to six", earn far more and avoid routine duties.

From Barron's • Jun. 11, 2026

Conscripts had to hand in their civilian IDs and were given military IDs instead.

From BBC • Dec. 29, 2024

Conscripts require months of training and Russia has said they will not be sent into war zones in Ukraine, after acknowledging cases where this had happened in the first weeks of the conflict last year.

From Reuters • Apr. 15, 2023

Conscripts began posting appeal videos last autumn, following an unpopular and sudden mobilization drive, that rapidly called up at least 300,000 new soldiers to plug the gaps resulting from a string of battlefield losses.

From Washington Post • Mar. 19, 2023

The cartoon entitled "Westminster Conscripts under the Training Act" appeared September 1, 1806.

From The History of the Nineteenth Century in Caricature by Cooper, Frederic Taber