enlist

Example Sentences

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Tolkan landed a scholarship to the college, but his academic career was short-lived, and he left to enlist in the U.S.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 30, 2026

While local officials staff these sites, the city plans to enlist volunteers and evacuees to help run shelters, it said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026

The embassy added that while it does not recruit foreigners, Russian law allows foreign nationals who are legally in Russia to voluntarily enlist in their armed forces.

From BBC • Feb. 26, 2026

His goal was "not necessarily" to convince his fellow teenagers to enlist, he told AFP.

From Barron's • Feb. 13, 2026

A great football, track, and baseball star, Sam Ransom, traveled all the way from Minneapolis to sign up with the Eighth, and a track star, Binga Dismond, left his medical school studies to enlist.

From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield