ENLIST in a Sentence
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33 example sentences for ENLIST, such as:
1. He had burned several times to enlist.
2. They both enlisted a year before the war broke out.
3. We enlisted them to serve as ushers at the meeting.
4. We've got to enlist some people to help prepare the food.
5. The only way to redeem yourself is to enlist after you sell your boats.
2. They both enlisted a year before the war broke out.
3. We enlisted them to serve as ushers at the meeting.
4. We've got to enlist some people to help prepare the food.
5. The only way to redeem yourself is to enlist after you sell your boats.
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Meanings and Examples of ENLIST
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enlist
v. hire for work or assistance
v. engage somebody to enter the army
Classic Sentence: (26 in 2 pages)
1 The only way to redeem yourself is to enlist after you sell your boats.
2 Any prisoner who will take the oath of allegiance and enlist for Indian service for two years will be released and sent West.
3 Cy was to be heard publishing it abroad that if he couldn't get the Widow Bogart's permission to enlist, he'd run away and enlist without it.
4 Nor, in quite other aspects, does Nature in her least palpable but not the less malicious agencies, fail to enlist among her forces this crowning attribute of the terrible.
5 Some ten days after the French ships sailed, the whale-boat arrived, and the captain was forced to enlist some of the more civilized Tahitians, who had been somewhat used to the sea.
6 Such an innovation on the silence and retirement of the forest could not fail to enlist the ears of those who journeyed at so short a distance in advance.
7 He had burned several times to enlist.
8 She would give him neither money nor food nor house-room; and so he was obliged to enlist himself as a sheriff's man.
9 Again Miss Davidson began making efforts to enlist the interest and help of the coloured and white people in and near Tuskegee.
10 Maybe we should have believed what Scarlett and Melanie said about him enlisting the day the town fell.
11 Army chaplains found here new and fruitful fields; "superintendents of contrabands" multiplied, and some attempt at systematic work was made by enlisting the able-bodied men and giving work to the others.
12 You see, when I enlisted I sold most of my land and I put all my money in Confederate bonds and you know what they're worth now.
13 As, for instance, neither of us believed in the war but I enlisted and fought and he stayed out till nearly the end.
14 Stimulated by apprehension, he left the scout, who immediately entered into a loud conversation with the stranger that had so unceremoniously enlisted himself in the party of travelers that morning.
15 The contest gradually grew warmer, until it was quite evident the feelings of the speakers began to be somewhat enlisted in the debate.
Example Sentence:
1 It seems strange to me that all round me do not burn to enlist, but join in the same enterprise.
2 We've got to enlist some people to help prepare the food.
3 His main nightmare is voluntarily enlisting in the Army again and being sent back to Iraq.
4 After enlisting in the Marines after high school, he served as a lance corporal and tank crewman, earning three medals.
5 They both enlisted a year before the war broke out.
6 We enlisted them to serve as ushers at the meeting.
7 Canadians seek enlistment in the US Marines because they don't see as much opportunity in the Canadian armed forces.