Sample sentences for CONSCRIPT

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Definition

draft (force someone by law) into military service; or the person drafted

My grandfather was conscripted before there was a voluntary draft.

conscripted = drafted (forced by law) into military service

When there weren't enough volunteers, they resorted to conscription.

(editor's note: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.)

King Solomon conscripted laborers from all Israel—thirty thousand men.
1 Kings 5:13 (NIV)
It was a convoy of conscripts enrolled from our people and starting to join the army.
Leo Tolstoy -- War and Peace
Any one of them was rated a match for any ten ordinary Landsraad military conscripts.
Frank Herbert -- Dune
Over thirty years, the IQ of Dutch conscripts rose twenty-one points and those of Spanish schoolchildren by ten points.
Nicholas D. Kristof -- Half the Sky
5 million active troops and a civilian population that could be conscripted into a suicide defense force.
James Bradley -- Flags of Our Fathers
America scraping the bottom of the conscription barrel?
Rick Yancey -- The 5th Wave

As regards the enemy's naval conscripts, some of whom may even share our own abhorrence of the regicidal French Directory, it is the same on our side.
Herman Melville -- Billy Budd
The Nationalists conscripted First Brother five years ago.
Amy Tan -- The Bonesetter's Daughter
People whined about taxes and conscription, as they always have; but there was an emptiness beneath the apathetic passion play of politics.
Stephen King -- The Gunslinger

With war on the horizon, Rowan would face her greatest challenge; she needed stalwart volunteers, not halfhearted conscripts.
Henry H. Neff -- The Maelstrom
Is the glorious People's Army now conscripting egrets for its assault troops?
Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Supremacy
That same month, American forces turned on Saipan's neighboring isle, Tinian, where the Japanese held five thousand Koreans, conscripted as laborers.
Laura Hillenbrand -- Unbroken
We are making a huge conscript army without the time to implant the discipline that a conscript army must have, to behave properly under fire.
Ernest Hemingway -- For Whom the Bell Tolls
Sixteen years ago, not too far away from here, I guess those Russian conscripts sensed something very similar before someone slashed their throats.
Marcus Luttrell -- Lone Survivor
They threw me out before my second conscription for overweight.
Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Ultimatum

It's a whole lot safer to have a blank file on your flank than to have an alleged soldier who is nursing the "conscript" syndrome.
Robert A. Heinlein -- Starship Troopers
On one page she saw a list of headings: exchange controls, rationing, the mass evacuation of large towns, the conscription of labor.
Ian McEwan -- Atonement

There you have it, conscript.
Victor Hugo -- Les Miserables

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