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Example sentences for "enlist"

Lexicographically close words:
enlighteneth; enlightening; enlightenment; enlightens; enlightned; enlisted; enlisting; enlistment; enlistments; enlists
  1. I had then to state whether I had had small-pox, whether I had been vaccinated or not, and whether I meant to re-enlist at the end of my year's service.

  2. He added that his only chance would be to re-enlist for another five years, but he was not inclined to do this.

  3. Four great Liberty Loans were floated, all the agencies of modern publicity being employed to enlist popular interest.

  4. That project they viewed not as an act of grace or of mercy but as a direct attempt to enlist French Canadians on the side of Great Britain.

  5. At the same time, the Federation, far from deliberately antagonizing employers, sought to enlist their coöperation and support.

  6. This figure of war our hero asked to step aside with him, and when they had come into a corner, proposed to the other what he intended, and that he had a mind to enlist as a gentleman adventurer upon this expedition.

  7. Throughout Ulster, however, a preliminary recruiting campaign had been carried out, promises to enlist on the official formation of an Ulster Division being obtained from members of the U.

  8. As soon as war is declared you will enlist,--enlist immediately.

  9. He hoped to enlist Michael's betrothed as an ally in his last decisive attack upon the prejudices of his father and of his father-in-law in spe.

  10. Master Ingram did not enlist but remained at home to take care of his family and his possessions.

  11. Mr. Moore's oldest sons went to war [HW: but he] himself did not enlist until the war was nearly over.

  12. The Irish troops were permitted to go to France and enlist in the king's army, as has been told already; and so ended the hope of placing a Catholic monarch on the English throne.

  13. And then he told me that he had five brothers in America, but he himself had been in the army, and was minded to enlist again.

  14. My service in public life has been such as to call my special attention to, and to enlist my special interest in, the people of the Territories.

  15. It is one that should enlist to a degree that nothing else can do our patriotic interests and State pride.

  16. He is the kind of fellow who will encourage others to enlist and go to war, in later life, while he stays home and kicks about the way the war is conducted, and shaves mortgages on the homes of soldiers, and forecloses them.

  17. I have not decided whether to kill my rival, or go and enlist and go to the Philippines and break her heart.

  18. Each side killed all the wounded that they found, and also all captives who refused to enlist in the captor's force.

  19. Many hundreds of them, I am confident, submitted to death rather than enlist in the British service, which, I am informed, they most generally were pressed to do.

  20. That it had been a common practice of the British to keep their prisoners four or five days without a morsel of meat and thus tempt them to enlist to save their lives.

  21. Next day was visited by a Refugee Lieutenant, offered to enlist me, offered a bounty, I declined.

  22. Soon after we had formed this desperate resolve a recruiting officer came on board to enlist men for the 88th Regiment to be stationed at Kingston, in the island of Jamaica.

  23. Nor ought we to omit the insults which the humane Britons offered to our people, nor the artifices which they used to enlist them in their service to fight against their country.

  24. British recruiting officers frequently came on board, and held out to the prisoners tempting offers to enlist in his Majesty's service; not to fight against their own country, but to perform garrison duty in the island of Jamaica.

  25. But if you will enlist into his Majesty's service, you shall have victuals and clothes enough.

  26. They starved the American prisoners to make them enlist in their service.

  27. We know, we say, that these young men perished awfully, rather than enlist in the British army; that posterity has almost forgotten them, and that their dreadful sufferings ought to be remembered wherever American history is read.

  28. Our privateers captured many British seamen, who, when willing to enlist in our service, as was generally the case, were received on board of our ships.

  29. The visit was probably one of courtesy, with a possible hope of being able to enlist Talleyrand in his (Burr's) Mexican schemes.

  30. If, on the one hand, those gods are enraged at the keeping of faith, let them enlist perjured persons as their worshippers.

  31. Pyrrhus, king of Greece, and at that time of wide-spread renown, was invited by the Tarentines to enlist himself against Rome.

  32. It was wholly unlikely, he said, that he would be fit for service again during the war, unless the war should last much longer than his original term of enlistment and he should enlist again.

  33. If enough of you will enlist here and now, I'll go with you as private or as captain.

  34. I will be frank: I had not intended to enlist in this war.

  35. Or did gentlemen intend, by this question of peace or war, to enlist the popular prejudices in favor of peace, in order to prevent proper measures being taken for the defence of the country?

  36. I shall enlist as an English soldier: there is always some fighting going on in the interior, and that is all I care for.

  37. Some tribes among the Afghans, such as the Marwats, are very stay-at-home, and soon become homesick if they enlist in a regiment or undertake a journey.

  38. Some one without money to try to enlist my sympathies in helping some scalawag out of trouble.

  39. They lived unhappily together until an open rupture caused him to leave her and enlist in the army.

  40. I propose going to that village to enlist the Portuguese part of my command.

  41. But we must enlist the help of men living between us.

  42. You will endeavour to enlist Portuguese and Spanish irregulars," the chief of Wellington's staff had told him.

  43. He slept late next morning and consequently lost an opportunity to respond to Hal's first call to enlist the aid of the Rockport amateurs in the campaign to rescue the missing "Crusoe".

  44. Hal's cousin may be in serious trouble, for all we know, and it's our duty to enlist every agency at our command to aid him.

  45. The fools went to the general and refused to enlist as soldiers.

  46. The fools reflected over this; then went to Ivan the Fool and said, “A general has appeared among us who orders us all to enlist as soldiers.

  47. The fools came to the Devil and said, “You tell us that if we won’t enlist as soldiers the King will have us put to death, but you don’t say what will happen to us when we become soldiers.

  48. The old Devil went back to Ivan and said, “Your fools won’t enlist of their own accord; we’ll have to force them.

  49. And the old Devil proclaimed throughout the kingdom that every man must enlist as a soldier, and if he fails to do so Ivan will have him put to death.

  50. Barry Lyndon tells his own story, so as to enlist every sympathy against himself, and yet all flows so plausibly, so glibly, that one can hardly explain how the effect was produced.

  51. The Nelson monument in Trafalgar Square was desecrated with recruiting circus-bills which would have delighted the heart of Barnum, and every taxicab wind-shield in town beseeched passers-by to "enlist for the duration of the war.

  52. A consultation was held, which resulted in the determination of all three to enlist in the service of their country.

  53. She left the Army of the Cumberland, resolved to enlist again in the first regiment she met.

  54. Lovie wants to enlist a company to go and take "Cromwell," and requested me to see Tom Jones & Co.

  55. She declares that she will enlist in her old regiment again, if there is a recruiting officer for the 21st in Michigan.

  56. The new pacha took advantage of this to enlist a numerous body of Albanians ready for any enterprise, and completely devoted to him.

  57. Capelan's object in giving his daughter to Tepeleni was to enlist him among the beys of the province to gain independence, the ruling passion of viziers.


  58. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "enlist" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    affiliate; alternate; associate; attach; book; bring; call; carry; commandeer; conscript; cover; decide; detach; determine; dispose; draft; employ; engage; enlist; enroll; enter; hire; impress; inaugurate; incline; induce; induct; influence; initiate; install; instate; interest; invest; join; lead; league; levy; list; lure; mobilize; muster; ordain; press; procure; prompt; raise; recruit; relieve; sign; spell; summon; sway; take; tempt