How to Use conscript in a Sentence

conscript

1 of 3 noun
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  • But conscripts still flow from the region, lured by the money paid.
    — Roger Cohen Nanna Heitmann, New York Times, 6 Aug. 2023
  • Nawi isn’t a conscript; as Nanisca makes clear, joining the Agojie is a choice.
    — Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2022
  • A year later, 19 army conscripts were killed when a train derailed near Cairo.
    — Dana Khraiche, Bloomberg.com, 11 Aug. 2017
  • Concerns are growing that the protest could trickle down to young conscripts as well.
    — Tia Goldenberg, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Mar. 2023
  • The say the blast, which took place on Sunday on a road just south of the coastal city of el-Arish city, also wounded four conscripts.
    — Ashraf Sweilam, The Seattle Times, 20 Aug. 2018
  • Unlike the Swedish system, in which conscripts serve for nine to 12 months, the French version, said Mr Macron, would now last from three to six months.
    — The Economist, 1 Mar. 2018
  • The next month, he was outraged after his cousin, a new conscript, was sent to Idlib Province, where the army was losing ground.
    — Anne Barnard and Hwaida Saad, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2016
  • Meanwhile, the military also shared that one of the dead was an officer and the other was a conscript.
    — Paul Goldman, NBC News, 16 Mar. 2018
  • And for many guys here, the gateway to face serums and 10-step skin-care regimens is their time as military conscripts.
    — Jonathan Cheng, WSJ, 23 Aug. 2018
  • The story of Hitler Youth teens shooting elderly German conscripts in Berlin who told them to abandon the fight in 1945 comes to mind.
    — Andrew Doran, National Review, 14 July 2017
  • The movies have been conscripts in this continuing culture war and to look back at 1968 is to understand what has and hasn’t changed.
    — New York Times, 17 May 2018
  • None of the dozen conscripts were seriously injured, an army spokesman told the Helsinki Times.
    — Fox News, 11 Sep. 2019
  • Putin had promised that Russian conscripts would not be deployed to Ukraine, like Chistyakova's son, thousands have been.
    — Patrick Reevell, ABC News, 24 Feb. 2023
  • As a young conscript four decades ago, Kang was a machine gunner stationed near the border with North Korea.
    — Max Kim, Los Angeles Times, 27 Nov. 2023
  • Before becoming a journalist Mr. Lapierre served as a conscript in the French Army.
    — Clay Risen, New York Times, 9 Dec. 2022
  • There is the makings of a Russian offensive under way, with some of those hundreds of thousands of conscripts who got brought in.
    — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 17 Feb. 2023
  • This year is an election year, and the Kremlin can ill afford large numbers of its young conscripts returning in body bags.
    — Andrew S. Bowen, Washington Post, 2 Feb. 2018
  • News of the rebellion had spread rapidly, carried in part by fleeing conscripts, and nearby towns were in a panic.
    — Trevor Paulhus, Smithsonian, 19 Sep. 2019
  • In August 2023, Putin signed a law to close the escape hatch by setting up a new system for conscripts: they will no longer be allowed to leave Russia if drafted.
    — Tuvshinzaya Gantulga, Foreign Affairs, 6 Oct. 2023
  • Others among the dead Russian soldiers were a captain found in a nearby building, and an 18-year-old conscript in the garden of a house who had been shot, Sergeant Soroka said.
    — New York Times, 4 Apr. 2022
  • Rouhani served as a military conscript under the shah though opposing him.
    — Jon Gambrell, The Seattle Times, 21 May 2017
  • One night last year at an army barracks in Tehran, a tormented young conscript rousted his sergeant from bed and marched him outside at gunpoint.
    — Shashank Bengali, latimes.com, 28 Sep. 2017
  • But these conscripts were wretched, and the volunteers were little better.
    — David Grann, The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2023
  • Army conscripts were deployed to clear paths for the emergency vehicles.
    — Dan Bilefsky, Orange County Register, 19 Jan. 2017
  • Click through the photo gallery to see images from this year’s public lottery, which is taking place amid a scandal involving the death of an army conscript.
    — Bay Area News Group, The Mercury News, 5 Apr. 2017
  • The money saved will be spent on equipment for Russian conscripts and volunteers fighting in the conflict, City Hall said on its website.
    — Bloomberg.com, 7 Oct. 2022
  • Their favourite recruits are said to be Cubans, who typically have military training (as conscripts in the Cuban army).
    — The Economist, 18 July 2019
  • The Americans in the fall had often faced poorly trained Bolshevik conscripts.
    — Michael M. Phillips, WSJ, 9 Nov. 2018
  • Where cultural walls are now being erected to conscript and steal free speech in America.
    — Fox News, 10 Apr. 2018
  • Twice a year, including starting in April, the Russian military conscripts young men for one year of training and service.
    — Alan Yuhas, New York Times, 31 Mar. 2023
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conscript

2 of 3 adjective
  • The rank-and-file in the new conscript army were brutalised.
    — The Economist, 11 Jan. 2018
  • Thai police have accused ten soldiers of beating a 22-year-old army conscript to death in a military prison.
    — Bay Area News Group, The Mercury News, 5 Apr. 2017
  • The Ottomans built the railway with taxes and conscript labor to link their Arab provinces and ferry hajj pilgrims to Mecca.
    — Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Oct. 2020
  • Under the conscript system, all eligible men are required to serve about two years.
    — Choe Sang-Hun, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2017
  • And in spite of the heavily nonwhite and working-class makeup of the conscript army in Vietnam, the dominant image of the Vietnam vet became a white, middle-class one.
    — Chris Lehmann, The New Republic, 21 May 2021
  • Across the Bay Area, local governments are racing to conscript public buildings and spaces into the fight against the coronavirus, as health experts brace for a surge of new patients over the next two weeks.
    — Sarah Ravani, SFChronicle.com, 28 Mar. 2020
  • Opposition to the first war in Chechnya in the mid-1990s was spurred by Russian families angry that their conscript sons were being used as cannon fodder.
    — New York Times, 21 Apr. 2022
  • Largely composed of conscript soldiers who were ignorant of what to expect, the force drove long columns of tanks and armor into the city in what was intended to be a swift overthrow of the Chechen leadership.
    — New York Times, 29 Mar. 2022
  • Their command-and-conscript regime would have forced states to close coal plants with years of remaining useful life and before alternatives could compensate for the lost power supply.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 21 Aug. 2018
  • Others are forced to serve after failing to convince conscript officials of their identity.
    — New York Times, 22 Jan. 2020
  • Zelensky, in an overnight address over the weekend, accused the Kremlin of cynically preparing conscript soldiers as cannon fodder for the next phase of fighting in the east.
    — Laura King, Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2022
  • The nationalist myths that dominate memories of war, even in the era of conscript armies, are examples of self-serving at a collective level—but there are many, many others.
    — Will Self, Harper's Magazine, 23 Nov. 2021
  • Family members of conscript soldiers, too, are a key demographic for resisting the war from within Russia, much like the grieving American mothers whose children were sent off to die in Iraq and Afghanistan.
    — Saoirse Gowan, The Week, 6 Mar. 2022
  • Ukrainian resistance has been fierce, and Russia's conscript troops have shown little enthusiasm for fighting.
    — Noah Millman, The Week, 3 Mar. 2022
  • Drivers have resorted to taking over street corners with their trucks, sorting packages on sidewalks as they conscript public space for private industry.
    — Brett Berk, Car and Driver, 16 May 2020
  • The huge increase in productive capacity as a result of the Industrial Revolution, starting in the 19th century, made possible large conscript armies that could remain locked in combat for months and then years on end.
    — Margaret MacMillan, WSJ, 2 Oct. 2020
  • Syria’s large Sunni majority dominates the insurgency, and also the army conscript pool.
    — Anne Barnard and Hwaida Saad, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2016
  • For him, recovering Ukraine may be worth losing conscript battalions, delaying some oil sales, enduring economic boycotts, and letting the world seize other oligarchs’ yachts.
    — Lewis Libby, National Review, 23 Mar. 2022
  • Russia’s failure to secure a quick victory supports research showing that conscript armies are worse at fighting wars than professional militaries staffed with volunteers.
    — Max Z. Margulies and Laura Resnick Samotin, WSJ, 5 May 2022
  • History records tales of undersupplied Russian conscript soldiers, high inflation and industrial breakdowns during wartime, and tyrants surrounded by flatterers.
    — Peter Landers and Alastair Gale, WSJ, 19 Mar. 2022
  • The Tumin story seems quaint in the era of social media and smartphone videos, especially as our prurient obsessions increasingly conscript private and unprivileged individuals for national scolding.
    — James Panero, WSJ, 23 Jan. 2019
  • The rank-and-file in the new conscript army were brutalised.
    — The Economist, 11 Jan. 2018
  • Thai police have accused ten soldiers of beating a 22-year-old army conscript to death in a military prison.
    — Bay Area News Group, The Mercury News, 5 Apr. 2017
  • The Ottomans built the railway with taxes and conscript labor to link their Arab provinces and ferry hajj pilgrims to Mecca.
    — Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Oct. 2020
  • Under the conscript system, all eligible men are required to serve about two years.
    — Choe Sang-Hun, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2017
  • And in spite of the heavily nonwhite and working-class makeup of the conscript army in Vietnam, the dominant image of the Vietnam vet became a white, middle-class one.
    — Chris Lehmann, The New Republic, 21 May 2021
  • Across the Bay Area, local governments are racing to conscript public buildings and spaces into the fight against the coronavirus, as health experts brace for a surge of new patients over the next two weeks.
    — Sarah Ravani, SFChronicle.com, 28 Mar. 2020
  • Opposition to the first war in Chechnya in the mid-1990s was spurred by Russian families angry that their conscript sons were being used as cannon fodder.
    — New York Times, 21 Apr. 2022
  • Largely composed of conscript soldiers who were ignorant of what to expect, the force drove long columns of tanks and armor into the city in what was intended to be a swift overthrow of the Chechen leadership.
    — New York Times, 29 Mar. 2022
  • Their command-and-conscript regime would have forced states to close coal plants with years of remaining useful life and before alternatives could compensate for the lost power supply.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 21 Aug. 2018
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conscript

3 of 3 verb
  • The government is conscripting men for the army.
  • He was conscripted into the army.
  • Others have been conscripted to its cause since the start of the invasion.
    — Tariq Panja, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2023
  • This park was conscripted to public use in the city’s 1686 charter.
    — Elisa Albert, Longreads, 7 May 2018
  • The fear is that big banks will be conscripted into service again and again.
    — The Economist, 5 Sep. 2019
  • Five men told The Times that they had been abducted by soldiers and forcibly conscripted into the army since the coup.
    — Sui-Lee Wee, New York Times, 19 Dec. 2023
  • He and Garcia conscripted their wives, Anna and Casie, along with the friends and family who’d helped with the pop-ups.
    — Dominic Armato, azcentral, 26 Feb. 2020
  • With all the men at the front, able-bodied women were conscripted to go to the forests in summer to collect wood for fuel.
    — Alan Philps, Town & Country, 5 July 2023
  • The announcement said those conscripted in the fall campaign would not be sent to the battlefield in Ukraine.
    — Natalia Abbakumova, Washington Post, 29 Sep. 2023
  • The bus was stopped by a soldier, looking to conscript his young countrymen into the army.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 26 Sep. 2021
  • Doris has been conscripted into the kind of caretaking that can tax even the most trained of adults, one that has robbed her of space for growing up.
    — Lisa Kennedy, Variety, 25 Jan. 2024
  • Schwarzenegger first learned to drive a tank in Austria in the 1960s, when he was conscripted into the Austrian Army.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 30 July 2018
  • Some women will conscript an older relative to fake an ulcer and ask for it over the counter.
    — Sarah Parvini, latimes.com, 29 Oct. 2017
  • Thousands of young men in the separatist regions have been conscripted to fight against Ukraine.
    — Simon Shuster, Time, 22 June 2023
  • Many of the players had, at least on the Argentine side, friends or relatives who had been conscripted, maybe even lost their life.
    — CNN, 11 June 2018
  • When the civil war resumed, after the Second World War, both sides conscripted men.
    — Jiayang Fan, The New Yorker, 17 June 2019
  • The back seats are fully usable for real adults, with none of the feeling that you’ve been conscripted into a bobsled team.
    — Ezra Dyer, Popular Mechanics, 24 Aug. 2018
  • The table stood alone, picked clean of its chairs, as McCall conscripted spare seating here and there to pile into her living room.
    — Melissa Brown, USA TODAY, 21 Aug. 2023
  • After two years at Adelphi, Davis was conscripted into the Army.
    — Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 27 Aug. 2019
  • During Vietnam, when the Army conscripted about 2 million men, the draft became almost as big an issue as the war.
    — Rick Hampson, USA TODAY, 26 Apr. 2017
  • Angry words can be overheard in the town’s square and, eventually, all are conscripted into the Nazi army.
    — Jake Coyle, Detroit Free Press, 19 Dec. 2019
  • More than two million people have fled their homes, tens of thousands have been killed and many more injured, abducted and conscripted to join the fight.
    — Dionne Searcey, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2019
  • Google is being conscripted as the potential hub of one of our greatest needs—Covid-19 testing.
    — Steven Levy, Wired, 20 Mar. 2020
  • He was eventually conscripted into the Nazi army, but refused to swear an oath to Hitler even on penalty of death.
    — David Sims, The Atlantic, 14 Dec. 2019
  • The Confederacy conscripted all white men between the ages of 18 to 35.
    — Cliff Pinckard, cleveland.com, 16 Apr. 2018
  • Like his parents, young Friedrich despised Nazism, but was conscripted twice: first to aid the Luftwaffe in air defense and later, in 1944, into the Wehrmacht.
    — David Allen, New York Times, 17 Feb. 2023
  • Rather than conscript her audience to a new aesthetic a day (Cottagecore!
    — Sam Reed, Glamour, 25 Sep. 2023
  • Rebel and state armies alike conscripted farm laborers who joined refugees in spreading disease.
    — Dagomar Degroot, Washington Post, 19 Feb. 2018
  • How was watermelon conscripted in service of a racist agenda, and how can it be reclaimed?
    — Seyward Darby, Longreads, 24 Jan. 2024
  • Women and girls are raped, their husbands murdered, their sons conscripted for the opposing armies, their villages burned.
    — Kyler Alvord, Peoplemag, 18 Dec. 2023

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