conscripted
Example Sentences
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But the big loser has been the lover of nonfiction history, as the founding era became a subject conscripted into a turf war over important moral and factual issues.
Others took the opposite path and joined or were conscripted into Islamic State.
"Those who are conscripted, they must tear them away from their mother's breast!" he exclaims.
From BBC
Harbaugh, a junior high coach, was conscripted to work with the varsity team, and sometimes that was little more than babysitting.
From Los Angeles Times
The death of a 45-year-old ethnic Hungarian in Ukraine, weeks after he was conscripted into the Ukrainian army, has provoked a furious row between the Hungarian government and authorities in Kyiv.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
