How to Use conscript in a Sentence

conscript

1 of 3 noun

• But conscripts still flow from the region, lured by the money paid.
  — Roger Cohen Nanna Heitmann, New York Times, 6 Aug. 2023
• Concerns are growing that the protest could trickle down to young conscripts as well.
  — Tia Goldenberg, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Mar. 2023
• Rehabs throughout South Africa are full of white ex-conscripts.
  — Eve Fairbanks, The Dial, 27 Jan. 2026
• Rouhani served as a military conscript under the shah though opposing him.
  — Jon Gambrell, The Seattle Times, 21 May 2017
• Nawi isn’t a conscript; as Nanisca makes clear, joining the Agojie is a choice.
  — Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2022
• Army conscripts were deployed to clear paths for the emergency vehicles.
  — Dan Bilefsky, Orange County Register, 19 Jan. 2017
• But these conscripts were wretched, and the volunteers were little better.
  — David Grann, The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Where cultural walls are now being erected to conscript and steal free speech in America.
  — Fox News, 10 Apr. 2018
• 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
• None of the dozen conscripts were seriously injured, an army spokesman told the Helsinki Times.
  — Fox News, 11 Sep. 2019
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Tamer al-Rifai, a military spokesman, said three other officers and four conscripts were wounded in the fighting.
  — Washington Post, 27 Feb. 2018
• Their favourite recruits are said to be Cubans, who typically have military training (as conscripts in the Cuban army).
  — The Economist, 18 July 2019
• And the erotic aspects of the ass, too, could swell their ranks with new conscripts, new stories, new vibrations and vulnerabilities.
  — Sean Williams, Harpers Magazine, 24 Feb. 2026
• That cost falls on the conscripts, who aren’t compensated fairly for the risks and opportunity costs of serving in the military.
  — David R. Henderson, WSJ, 13 Jan. 2019
• Begersky was a conscript from a small town near Russia’s Pacific coast, Agentstvo reported.
  — Arkansas Online, 19 Apr. 2022
• 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
• In fact, in many cases, Russian forces appear to be using conscripts as live test subjects for experimental systems such as this new suit.
  — Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 31 Jan. 2026
• Joining doesn’t come without complications for a country that effectively cannot order its conscripts to fight overseas.
  — Liam Denning, Bloomberg, 12 Mar. 2026
• In Switzerland, the heat wave also coincided with the first weeks of basic training for the country’s new military conscripts.
  — Washington Post, 27 June 2019
• And lots of Russian soldiers, especially the conscripts mustered in a fall mobilization drive, don't want to die in Ukraine.
  — Peter Weber, The Week, 8 Mar. 2023
• 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

conscript

2 of 3 adjective

• The gang is known to forcibly conscript migrants as mules—and sometimes dispose of them.
  — Jason Motlagh, Outside Online, 19 July 2016
• Under the conscript system, all eligible men are required to serve about two years.
  — Choe Sang-Hun, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2017
• Others are forced to serve after failing to convince conscript officials of their identity.
  — New York Times, 22 Jan. 2020
• Ukrainian resistance has been fierce, and Russia's conscript troops have shown little enthusiasm for fighting.
  — Noah Millman, The Week, 3 Mar. 2022
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Taipei’s conscript system, like South Korea’s, is under pressure, with social contract cracks and skills matrices not always matching operational need.
  — Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 8 Oct. 2025
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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

conscript

3 of 3 verb

• The government is conscripting men for the army.
• He was conscripted into the army.
• The fear is that big banks will be conscripted into service again and again.
  — The Economist, 5 Sep. 2019
• Maybe drafted is more like it, as when he was conscripted to have a blue clay face mask applied.
  — Tracy Smith, CBS News, 12 Apr. 2026
• Others have been conscripted to its cause since the start of the invasion.
  — Tariq Panja, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2023
• In other cases, you could be conscripted to help all the way through trial.
  — Kathy Kristof, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Mar. 2026
• 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
• The bus was stopped by a soldier, looking to conscript his young countrymen into the army.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 26 Sep. 2021
• And a reverse centaur is someone who is conscripted to help the machine.
  — Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 19 June 2026
• Rebel and state armies alike conscripted farm laborers who joined refugees in spreading disease.
  — Dagomar Degroot, Washington Post, 19 Feb. 2018
• At age seventeen, he was conscripted to dig trenches for Hitler’s army.
  — Rivka Galchen, New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2025
• This park was conscripted to public use in the city’s 1686 charter.
  — Elisa Albert, Longreads, 7 May 2018
• Among these is a law that would conscript religious seminary students into the army.
  — The Economist, 19 Sep. 2019
• 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
• Thousands of young men in the separatist regions have been conscripted to fight against Ukraine.
  — Simon Shuster, Time, 22 June 2023
• 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
• But households from poor to rich did face some possibility that a child might be conscripted and sent into harm’s way.
  — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 21 Jan. 2024
• How was watermelon conscripted in service of a racist agenda, and how can it be reclaimed?
  — Seyward Darby, Longreads, 24 Jan. 2024
• 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
• Women and girls are raped, their husbands murdered, their sons conscripted for the opposing armies, their villages burned.
  — Kyler Alvord, Peoplemag, 18 Dec. 2023
• 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
• Very few Iowans were conscripted, since the state maintained robust ranks of volunteers throughout the war.
  — Bill Steiden, Des Moines Register, 24 Mar. 2026
• 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
• 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
• After two years at Adelphi, Davis was conscripted into the Army.
  — Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 27 Aug. 2019
• Immigration lawyers have raised concerns that those deported to Ukraine could be conscripted to fight in the war.
  — Ximena Bustillo, NPR, 18 Nov. 2025
• 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
• At the same time, he’s tasked with conscripting 150 of his workers for Vladimir Putin’s war machine.
  — Jake Coyle, Chicago Tribune, 23 May 2026
• 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
• When the civil war resumed, after the Second World War, both sides conscripted men.
  — Jiayang Fan, The New Yorker, 17 June 2019