Example sentences for: conscripts

How can you use “conscripts” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Russia makes no serious effort to train them, because it doesn't have qualified noncommissioned officers, and its officers can't control the conscripts.

  • "If it is emerging that this is a war of morale--that of the conscripts' willingness to bear fear versus the NATO public's patience with apparent lack of results--President Clinton and the Prime Minister should now accept that they have paid insufficient attention to supporting the morale of their own electorates and have been insufficiently calculating in attacking that of their enemy."

  • Keegan said Milosevic's main mistake may have been to send barely trained teen-age conscripts to Kosovo, since their morale is especially vulnerable.

  • And would Clinton, hanging so tenuously to his legacy, risk what's left by working back channels with the Secret Service to bring in concupiscent conscripts while Hillary's out of town?

  • Canals, roads, and the Great Wall were built under the auspices of an extensive public works program staffed mostly by conscripts.


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