conscript

Trudging through snow, a young Finnish conscript carefully draws a thin blue wire between two pine trees.

From Barron's ● Feb. 6, 2026

Other Nato members do not conscript but have professional militaries.

From BBC ● Dec. 5, 2025

The legislation, which was watered down from its original draft, will make it easier to identify every conscript in the country.

From Seattle Times ● May 18, 2024

He had not handled a gun since he was a teenage conscript in Hitler’s Wehrmacht at the end of World War II.

From New York Times ● Dec. 27, 2023

Azareen, fierce and stoic as she was, had one of the prettiest tattoos Sarai had seen—done by Guldan, of course, who was now a conscript in Minya’s wretched army.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

The dumb conscripts are given instant gratification and money.

From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026

We joined a training session for Denmark’s conscripts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026

Around 800 people are in the first batch of conscripts.

From BBC ● Mar. 9, 2026

That number almost certainly includes conscripts the military has begun forcibly recruiting to bolster its ranks.

From Barron's ● Dec. 23, 2025

Aegon Dragonlord had perhaps a fifth that number, the chroniclers said, and most of those were conscripts from the ranks of the last king he had slain, their loyalties uncertain.

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin

A full-size replica of a Spanish galleon stares out into Manila Bay, the centrepiece of a museum that will transport visitors back to the 17th century, when conscripted Philippine mariners hastened the era of globalisation.

From Barron's ● Apr. 28, 2026

Under Kenya's laws it is illegal for the country's citizens to be conscripted into foreign armies - an offence that can carry up to a 10-year prison sentence.

From BBC ● Mar. 22, 2026

The foreign ministry estimates that 252 Kenyans have been illegally conscripted to fight on the front line - a trend that began about six months ago and has also involved recruits from other African countries.

From BBC ● Mar. 22, 2026

With able-bodied German men conscripted to fight in the war, workers from the lands the Nazis occupied were drafted to meet the labor shortage.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 13, 2026

Maybe the female guards had been conscripted from some other unit.

From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo

As a Christian minister of an American Baptist congregation, I’ve spent more than 20 years in a pulpit — long enough to know the difference between protecting a church and conscripting one.

From Salon ● Jul. 18, 2026

Temporary arrangements to continue it were formally ended by the court last year, forcing the government to begin conscripting the community.

From BBC ● Feb. 16, 2026

On November 19, Israel's Supreme Court ruled that the government was required to present an effective proposal for conscripting the ultra-Orthodox.

From Barron's ● Nov. 29, 2025

After conscripting a friend who was legally allowed to kill alligators, Capps faced his nemesis and won.

From Slate ● Nov. 3, 2020

“If it has come to this, that you are conscripting somebody my age, then Biafra has died,” the elderly man said quietly.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie