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How to use conscripted in a sentence

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If you were conscripted as a common soldier some two hundred years ago, you had to get permission to get married.
Once a first lieutenant in the Army, he had chosen to resign and was punished by being conscripted as a soldier back into the same unit.
That war was not the quarrel of the indigenous people, yet we conscripted them to fight it.
There are also reports that civilians are being conscripted to fight or be human shields.
I was right of course and probably some of their big brothers were conscripted and killed.
In the Soviet Union, where millions of women were conscripted, they were just as aggressive and just as brutalised by the experience as the men.
He is conscripted into a nasty little private army, escapes, finds the uniform of a US mail man, and becomes a symbol of hope.
He was conscripted in 1939 but, because he was blind in his right eye, he was assigned to the medical corps.
In 1915 he was conscripted, but was regarded as unsuitable for combat duties and assigned to the postal and meteorological services.
As in any situation where young and inexperienced people are conscripted into military duty, you will find a layer who question their actions.
Forcible conscription of adults and children continued, although children were conscripted to a lesser extent than in the previous year.
Beginning in 1753, thousands of Canadians were conscripted each year into the militia, draining labour away from agriculture.
At 18, shortly before the end of the Second World War, he was conscripted into the army.
The first photograph shows soldiers being conscripted during wartime as victims on an army production line.
In the south of France, for instance, the maquis began with men fleeing into the hills to avoid being conscripted to work in factories.
Those young enough to be conscripted but who did not pass the military's medicals could join the Home Guard.
Many were recruited to the armed forces, or conscripted to labour on sisal and rubber plantations.
A group of lawyers conscripted to work pro bono sat down with representatives of the initial 62 plaintiffs.
The tradition still survived of the father-in-law assuming the conjugal rights of a conscripted son.
They are most often victims thereof and sometimes also combatants enlisted or conscripted in contempt of their rights.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Men will be conscripted to the extent that it is wise and just and needful.
So, and no other, should wealth and the country's resources in general be conscripted.
He was conscripted but sent back because he was the father of six children.
And, are not the children of the well-to-do conscripted equally with the children of the poor?
And work, as these years have taught the observant, is but for slaves and the conscripted.
But he got conscripted by a bomb that took a corner off the hospital and one off his head.
A number of old czarist agents and diplomats versed in Eastern affairs were cajoled or conscripted into the service.
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