enlisted

Example Sentences

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This year, she's enlisted Boy George, who turns up to sing about "all the boys at the bar sipping cool champagne".

From BBC • May 8, 2026

As reporters Kat Lonsdorf and Tom Bowman noted, those numbers are “a drop in the bucket” compared to the more than 1.3 million people enlisted.

From Salon • May 3, 2026

Detectives enlisted help from a California Department of Fish and Wildlife biologist to review the video, and they agreed it was clearly a human in a bear suit.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 18, 2026

Its recruits included Khamenei himself, who was a teenager when he enlisted toward the end of the war.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026

“Do you think,” he asked, “that keeping the enlisted men out might interfere with our chances of getting results ?” The chaplain hesitated, feeling himself on unfamiliar ground again.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller