impressment

Example Sentences

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It recognized England’s right to retain tariffs on American exports while granting English imports most-favored status in the United States; it implicitly accepted English impressment of American sailors.

From Literature

He opened it with much impressment—assumed, of course—and showed a great bundle of white flowers.

From Literature

Outraged by British impressment of American sailors into the Royal Navy, he banged the drum for war, declaring that “the liberty of our sailors and their redemption from slavery” were at stake.

From New York Times

It’s far worse to compare the Trump administration’s actions to Tuesday’s mostly rosy rhetoric, and to conclude that the impressment of those rituals, those locales, was anything but sincere.

From Los Angeles Times

As the Cold War intensified, church leaders in the east feared impressment into the service of the totalitarian state.

From Washington Post