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Example sentences for "recruiting"

Lexicographically close words:
recrudescence; recruit; recruited; recruiter; recruiters; recruitment; recruits; recrystallization; recrystallized; rect
  1. On his rear was Tilly, who was fast recruiting his force, and would soon be joined by the auxiliaries from Lorraine.

  2. This mass would therefore only fill up the recruiting depots, and facilitate to some degree the task of making good the losses.

  3. While recruiting for the campaign of 1735, Prince Eugene wrote a series of most earnest letters to his confidential agent in London, which letters were laid before George II.

  4. With wonderful energy she availed herself of this short respite in replenishing her treasury and in recruiting her armies.

  5. If you hold these smaller weapons in such vast contempt," said the recruiting officer, when he perceived that his men had possessed themselves of all the avenues, "it is in my power to try the virtue of some more formidable.

  6. You will aid us in our entrance, Katherine; I shall first secure this recruiting officer, and his command will then surrender without striking a blow.

  7. That and my sword-hilt," returned the immovable recruiting officer.

  8. In the former there were moments when a deep gloom would, in spite of his very obvious exertions to the contrary, steal over his open, generous countenance; but the recruiting officer maintained an air of immovable coolness and composure.

  9. The recruiting officer manifested a composure throughout it, and the latter laughing, and indulging those buoyant spirits that a boy of his years and reflection might be supposed to feel even in such a scene.

  10. Aware of the necessity of immediate measures against a neighbour, brave, persevering, and ambitious, the Athenian government lost no time in recruiting its broken forces.

  11. While recruiting went on apace, the Barracks remained illuminated day and night, and the tension remained for many weeks at a high pitch.

  12. The Town perhaps have been as much obliged to me, for recruiting it with free-hearted Ladies, as to any Recruiting Officer in the Army.

  13. In England this murder did more to stimulate recruiting than anything else up to that time.

  14. I can only notice one other memorable place in Shrewsbury, and that is the Raven Inn, where Farquhar wrote his comedy of "The Recruiting Officer" in 1701.

  15. By the 2nd of August, ninety-six men had been secured, the recruiting being done by a town committee.

  16. Recruiting began on the 15th, and was very slow, though the office was open day and evening.

  17. Another meeting on the 25th voted to pay volunteers one hundred and fifty dollars each, and a committee of fifteen was appointed to assist the recruiting officers.

  18. My condition was that of my associates in misery, and it was then that the rebel authorities opened a recruiting station in our midst, offering a loaf of bread and fifty dollars in gold to each one who would enlist; six hundred went out.

  19. Woburn's assignment was ninety-eight men and it came at a time when recruiting was dull.

  20. Recruiting was very active, notwithstanding the horrors of war, so graphically set forth in the daily press.

  21. The record for the 6th of August was that Captain Cooper had opened a recruiting office in Templar Hall Building, and had secured about a dozen names.

  22. Grenville, Fox, and their colleagues, are out on a recruiting expedition, to enlist volunteers for their new service.

  23. Admiral Nelson Recruiting with his Brave Tars after the Glorious Battle of the Nile, i.

  24. Admiral Nelson Recruiting with his Brave Tars after the Glorious Battle of the Nile.

  25. Admiral Nelson recruiting with his brave Tars after the Battle of the Nile.

  26. Here we have each to go and kill or be killed, there they have each to give the fruit of their toil to pay for the recruiting and training of soldiers.

  27. It seems he did not suffer himself merely to be measured by the recruiting examiners, but also to be marched and drilled in the attempt to expand his chest to the necessary inches.

  28. Even if they suspected I had enlisted--which is not likely--they could not find me, for the recruiting sergeant blundered in registering my name.

  29. Not a rare mistake of the recruiting officer.

  30. His master was a recruiting officer, and he himself a recruit.

  31. The Sovereigns themselves were more dangerous recruiting officers than the captains of the old Landsknechte.

  32. It was required of recruiting sergeants, who were paid for this purpose, to be especially expert in the art of outwitting.

  33. The Emperor, indeed, had the best of it, for each of his regiments had, according to custom, a fixed recruiting district throughout Germany.

  34. Footnote 3: The system of allotting to each regiment its recruiting district.

  35. It was then a great misfortune for the sons of the clergy or officials to grow tall, and the usual warning of anxious parents was, "Do not grow, or you will be caught by the recruiting officer.

  36. One of the best recruiting places in the empire was Frankfort-a-M.

  37. Even before the great war of succession the deficiency of men began to be felt; voluntary enlistment could nowhere any longer be obtained; complaints of the deeds of violence of the recruiting officers became at last troublesome.

  38. In 1708 forcible recruiting was abolished, "because it was too great an exaction.

  39. Near together on the Schmiedebruecke, at Breslau, were the two recruiting places for the volunteer rifles and the Luetzow irregulars.

  40. The recruiting officers were themselves often bad and untrustworthy men, whose proceedings and disbursements could with difficulty be controlled.

  41. Stripped of his numerous waistcoats his chest measurement, as the military doctors informed me, is so poor that a larger percentage of Bosniaks were rejected from the army than in most of the other recruiting districts of Austria-Hungary.

  42. His partner was on board, vigorous and hearty from six weeks' recruiting on Malaita.

  43. And then she inveigled Sheldon into agreeing that she could take occasional cruises in the islands, though he was adamant when it came to a recruiting trip on Malaita.

  44. While for such a girl to insist that she was going on a recruiting cruise around Malaita was positive self-sacrilege.

  45. But you've broken the recruiting laws," Sheldon said, when the new recruits had marched away to the barracks.

  46. There was a discrepancy between the answer and the record in the recruiting books, and a consequent discussion, until Munster solved the difficulty.

  47. And I shall most certainly buy a ketch, run her myself, and go recruiting on Malaita.

  48. You said I shouldn't go recruiting on the Flibberty, and I won't.

  49. There's no law against recruiting when you're empty.

  50. Then I shall go over on a recruiting vessel some time.

  51. Did I tell you that I'd taken out a recruiting license for the Martha?

  52. You can go sailing on the Martha any time you please--recruiting on Malaita if you want to.

  53. He's sore over the auction, and he sprang his recruiting contract with Munster on her.

  54. Here, safe from surprise, the soldiers of Gomez and Maceo and Garcia rested between attacks, nursing their wounded and recruiting their strength for further sallies.

  55. There was nothing martial about the atmosphere of the Junta's offices; there were no war maps on the walls, no stands of arms nor recruiting officers in evidence--not even a hint of intrigue or conspiracy.

  56. First: The competitive system, for centuries, has been war's chief recruiting office.

  57. Every co-operative farm, will become an outpost and a recruiting station; every State, a grand encampment.

  58. They will be the executive and recruiting officers of the Crusade; rendering weekly reports to the headquarters in Washington.

  59. In recruiting crusaders from the ranks of the wealthy, a special effort should be made, to have them take up the cause as a fashionable fad.

  60. Twenty-four hours later Lewin Rodwell was standing upon the platform of the big Music Hall, in George Street, Edinburgh, addressing a great recruiting meeting.

  61. Rodwell was due to speak at a big recruiting meeting down at Poplar, and after their meal the pair drove in his car eastwards to the meeting, where he was received with the wildest enthusiasm.

  62. A month after war was declared I went to the recruiting office fully prepared to enlist.


  63. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "recruiting" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    call; conscription; draft; drafting; draught; draughtsman; draughty; enlistment; enrollment; impressment; induction; levy; mobilization; muster; press; recruitment; summons