Example sentences for: enlisted

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

  • But Larry Lessig, the legal scholar enlisted by the court to sort out the case, is an expert on subtle methods by which software providers can steer consumer choices.

  • With his father seeking re-election to his Senate seat that fall, Gore Jr. enlisted in the Army and served as a reporter.

  • According to John Kenneth Galbraith's The Great Crash , financial speculation during the 1920s grew so feverish that "even the cathedral voice of William Jennings Bryan, which once had thundered against the cross of gold," was "enlisted in the sorry task of selling swampland" in Florida.

  • A few months ago an organization called Redefining Progress enlisted five economists--the Nobel laureates Robert Solow and Kenneth Arrow, together with Harvard's Dale Jorgenson, Yale's William Nordhaus, and myself--to circulate an "Economists' Statement on Climate Change," calling for serious measures to limit the emission of greenhouse gases.

  • It is funny to think that our army--in which 'surgical strikes' are useless because enlisted men shake the TNT out of the bombs and sell it--could consider fighting a country in which war is considered the one worthy male occupation."


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