con·script
ˈkän-ˌskript 
1
: enrolled into service by compulsion : drafted
2
: made up of conscripted persons
con·script
kən-ˈskript
conscripted; conscripting; conscripts
: to enroll into service by compulsion : draft
was conscripted into the army
Examples of conscript in a Sentence
Noun
as the war continued, the body of enlisted soldiers was supplemented by an increasing number of conscripts
Verb
The government is conscripting men for the army.
He was conscripted into the army.
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Güney Yıldız, Forbes.com, 31 July 2025
The bombs did not distinguish between evil magistrates and political prisoners, or the 18- to 20-year-old conscripts tasked with escorting them.
—Siamak Namazi, Time, 25 June 2025
Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 9 Aug. 2024
The Bolshevik leader Leon Trotsky’s talent as a military organizer gradually turned the ragtag collection of volunteer Red militias into a regular conscript army, and by the fall of 1920, the Whites were thoroughly defeated and dislodged from most Russian territory.
—Anna Reid, Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb. 2024
Dr. Ewelina U. Ochab, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2025
Men had measured every new kid’s shoulder width before he was conscripted and driven far from home to the tunnels.
—Charles Pellegrino, Deadline, 31 July 2025
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Noun
What: Complete elimination of Kurdish autonomy, with the SDF dissolved into individual conscripts.
—Güney Yıldız, Forbes.com, 31 July 2025
The bombs did not distinguish between evil magistrates and political prisoners, or the 18- to 20-year-old conscripts tasked with escorting them.
—Siamak Namazi, Time, 25 June 2025
Adjective
Russia has reserves of conscript soldiers it is prohibited by its policies from deploying into Ukraine, but could on Russian soil.
—Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 9 Aug. 2024
The Bolshevik leader Leon Trotsky’s talent as a military organizer gradually turned the ragtag collection of volunteer Red militias into a regular conscript army, and by the fall of 1920, the Whites were thoroughly defeated and dislodged from most Russian territory.
—Anna Reid, Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb. 2024
Verb
The terror group killed thousands, predominantly targeting men and elderly women, while abducting boys to forcibly conscript them as child soldiers.
—Dr. Ewelina U. Ochab, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2025
Men had measured every new kid’s shoulder width before he was conscripted and driven far from home to the tunnels.
—Charles Pellegrino, Deadline, 31 July 2025
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“Conscript.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/conscript. Accessed 24 Aug. 2025.
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conscript
1 of 3 adjective
con·script
ˈkän-ˌskript
1
: enrolled into service by force
2
: made up of conscripted persons
conscript
2 of 3 verb
con·script
kən-ˈskript
: to enroll into service by force : draft
was conscripted into the army
conscription
noun
kən-ˈskrip-shən
conscript
3 of 3 noun
con·script
ˈkän-ˌskript
: a conscripted person (as a military recruit)
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