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Example sentences for "conscripts"

Lexicographically close words:
conscript; conscripted; conscripting; conscription; conscriptions; conscyence; consecrate; consecrated; consecrates; consecrating
  1. Domiciliary perquisitions are being made just now, in many cities, to seize the leaders of a conspiracy to debauch the young conscripts who begin their two years' military service now.

  2. Did the army want recruits, the Guillotine was ready to exterminate all conscripts who should hesitate to march.

  3. Conscripts who failed to appear, resisted, or fled, were subjected to the penalties which attached to emigration.

  4. The French, on the contrary, disciplined immense bodies of their conscripts as irregulars and sharpshooters.

  5. Except for Spain, the largest contributions of war conscripts came from the countries with the largest populations.

  6. The subordinates who carried out military decisions were volunteer-professional soldiers, mercenary adventurers and conscripts drawn form the four corners of the empire.

  7. At the same time the depots of Dauphiny and Provence, as also the conscripts in the eastern departments, were to assemble at Lyons to close to the enemy the approaches from Switzerland and Savoy, and if necessary to operate on his rear.

  8. Did they not see that, to allow such conscripts to go up to the Soudan, was not only cruel, but also politically unwise, for it could not be expected that they would have any heart in the matter?

  9. French conscripts forced into the German Army are always sent as far as possible from home.

  10. No one here hinted to me of any especial severity being shown to French conscripts on this account, but we can easily understand the disadvantage under which they labour.

  11. Probably only a very few of the conscripts were Party members, but nearly all were members of the youth organization.

  12. Most conscripts have been exposed to a considerable amount of drill and elementary basic training in school and in Communist youth organizations, permitting the forces to concentrate on tactical exercises.

  13. Sigurimi personnel may be conscripts called during the annual draft or may be career volunteers.

  14. Meanwhile, Napoleon, with a horde of conscripts and the few veteran troops that he could collect, had been fighting hard in Germany.

  15. The conscripts were wont to desert, the militia protested against crossing their county boundary, the train-bands melted back to their shops if they were kept too long under arms.

  16. About a week after that we were at High Point again, conveying some arrested conscripts to Raleigh, when train load after train load of Federal prisoners passed going from Chickamauga to Richmond.

  17. And everywhere, without apparent reason, emotions were stirred, old sorrows awoke, and the humble occupants of isolated farms or remote villages listened with a tightening of the heart to the tramp of the conscripts of Sallertaine.

  18. And in truth the young conscripts had begun the ascent towards La Fromentiere; soon the bugle call, soon their voices, resounded over the silent Marais, carried afar by the wind, like grains of seed falling everywhere.

  19. Meanwhile the sounds were approaching; the two brothers motionless under the elms, each pursuing the train of thought evoked by the first notes of the bugle, could hear the conscripts of Sallertaine coming up the hill towards them.

  20. The conscripts of my young guard are in a state of great exhaustion and depression.

  21. The young conscripts were disheartened by defeat, the steady old veterans were pitifully few in number, thousands of them were in foreign prisons, many more thousands of them were dead.

  22. The iron hand of Ney had kept some sort of discipline and some sort of organization, but the distress and dismay of the conscripts was but too plainly evident.

  23. The military officer continued to dispatch two companies a day--leaving the mass of the conscripts to be fed by the contractors.

  24. On the 23d the Emperor repaired to the Senate, and issued a decree calling out the reserves of the conscripts of five years’ standing.

  25. Our Russian conscripts mutinied against the English in July, making it impossible for the English to remain.

  26. Some of our Russian conscripts had gone over to the enemy.

  27. On the other fronts the mutinies were not of ex-Bolsheviki prisoners but of the "mobilized" conscripts who had never been tainted by Bolshevist theories or ideals and whose defection is therefore of greater significance.

  28. On the 23d of October I learned of Pemberton's being in command at Holly Springs and much reinforced by conscripts and troops from Alabama and Texas.

  29. Probably, from returned prisoners, and such conscripts as can be picked up, his numbers may be kept up.

  30. His conscripts were generally old men and boys.

  31. At Luetzen, his corps of conscripts fought nobly: five times the gallant Ney led them to the attack; five times they responded to the call of their leader.

  32. The rebel forces consisted of some very raw cavalry from Arkansas and Texas, and some newly-assembled conscripts who had not been in camp many days and knew practically nothing about military life.

  33. Soon as the firing began to have anything like vigor to it the conscripts fled in disorder, but the Texan troops stood their ground very well.

  34. There were 13 conscripts having a testicular diameter of less than 14 millimeters.

  35. Ammon, in his investigation of conscripts at the age of 20 (post, p.

  36. Some importance, therefore, attaches to Ammon's careful observations of many thousand conscripts in Baden.

  37. Even in 1806 one quarter of Napoleon's conscripts failed to come up for duty.

  38. At the same time, the operation of Jourdan's law, acquiesced in during times of national danger and even during peace, soon found opposition when the conscripts realized that long foreign wars were to be their lot.

  39. Naval conscripts and some air force personnel are required to serve two years.

  40. On the minus side, because the country has a low standard of living, conscripts have little familiarity with mechanical and electronic equipment.

  41. The most capable and cooperative conscripts are offered the opportunity to attend noncommissioned officer schools.

  42. Reduction of the tour of duty in 1964 to sixteen months for most conscripts necessitated a slight reduction in the overall size of the forces.

  43. Also, the discipline and political indoctrination given the conscripts during their military service is considered beneficial to them and to the country.

  44. On the other hand, some Western analysts have argued that, because most of the conscripts are unskilled and underemployed, the military's drain on the manpower pool entails no great loss to productive enterprise (see ch.

  45. Conscripts serve their entire tours as privates unless they acquire a speciality or are put in charge of a small group.

  46. A large percentage of conscripts have rural, village, or small city backgrounds and are in better physical condition than the average urban youth.

  47. With conscripts for infantry and without cavalry he had won Lutzen, Bautzen, and Dresden; and even so late as September Byron was writing that "bar epilepsy and the elements he would back Napoleon against the field.

  48. Whole battalions of conscripts dispersed entirely, and many left their muskets regularly piled, as if intimating their fixed resolution to retire altogether from the contest.


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