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Example sentences for "enlists"

Lexicographically close words:
enlist; enlisted; enlisting; enlistment; enlistments; enliven; enlivened; enlivening; enlivens; enmeshed
  1. C= Enlists Tache in task of forming a Cabinet, on advice of Cartier, 68; correspondence in regard to Cartier's refusal of the C.

  2. So divine and essential a cause enlists their endeavors.

  3. When a young fellow enlists he is sent to one of several naval training-stations.

  4. When a boy or a man enlists he goes at once on the payroll.

  5. He enlists and holds the reader's sympathy from the outset.

  6. The hero, after being wrecked and going through many stirring adventures among the Malays, finds his way to Calcutta and enlists in a regiment proceeding to join the army at the Afghan passes.

  7. But when a fellow enlists for war, volunteers, you see, before the government calls him, then thataway he can pick out for himself the thing he wants to be in the army.

  8. You mean when a boy enlists he offers himself instead of gets offered.

  9. A sect remains, which though divided long } In hostile parties, both are fierce and strong, } And into each enlists a warm and zealous throng.

  10. What worth has virtue by desire untried, When Nature's self enlists on duty's side?

  11. This may occur in several ways, but such vessel in every case loses her neutral and acquires enemy character, just as a subject of a neutral Power who enlists in the ranks of the enemy armed forces.

  12. This, for instance, is the case when a foreign subject in time of peace enlists in the armed forces of a State and continues to serve after the outbreak of war.

  13. This theory enlists a variety of evidence in its behalf.

  14. It enlists his loyalty as much as his country enlists his patriotism.

  15. His mission seems to have been to arraign and demolish evil rather than to applaud good, and thus he enlists our sinless anger as crusaders rather than our sympathy as philanthropists.

  16. Here he enlists the sympathies which one never feels for perfection; and here, too, he portrays female loveliness and endurance in his Mrs. Pendennis and Laura.

  17. But there is an atmosphere in the regular regiments that makes one brother that goes into the regulars a better soldier than the other that enlists in militia.

  18. It is not often realized what a purgatory the educated, independent man who enlists as a private has to go through before his spirit is tamed sufficiently to stand bossing, without resentment, by men socially and educationally inferior.

  19. But it also offers a solidly good career to the young man who enlists and remains with the colors until he is retired after thirty years of continuous service.

  20. This may seem like a trivial thing to you, but Terry is just one day short of the age, and the regulations provide that an officer who knowingly enlists a recruit below the proper age is to be dismissed from the service.

  21. Out of five hundred occupations, a woman can certainly choose one which, though not perhaps that which enlists her enthusiasm, is yet better than the debasement of herself which an indifferent marriage necessitates.

  22. Work that enlists the energies and the enthusiasm will weary, but the weariness itself is welcome, and brings with it a satisfaction,--the pleasant sense of something accomplished.

  23. If he re-enlists and has shown aptitude for the service, he is sent to Washington navy yard for a course of six months' instruction in gunnery and special branches, such as electricity and torpedoes.

  24. Upon the expiration of the enlistment of an apprentice he will, if recommended, receive an honorable discharge, and if he enlists again within three months, will be given pay for this period.


  25. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "enlists" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.