How to Use conscription in a Sentence

conscription

noun

• The Russians won’t be told the whole truth about this conscription and about the fate of the conscripts.
  — New York Times, 1 Apr. 2022
• One of the reasons to close the borders in wartime is to keep conscription-age men inside the country.
  — Howard Amos, The New Republic, 4 Mar. 2022
• Those were all wars in which young men were subject to conscription.
  — Jeff Rice, Twin Cities, 24 June 2019
• For more than six years, the state had been asking the Supreme Court for more time to pass a new conscription law to resolve the issue.
  — Maayan Lubell, USA TODAY, 25 June 2024
• And through conscription, democracies forced their young to serve, fight and die in their armed forces.
  — Margaret MacMillan, WSJ, 2 Oct. 2020
• In late spring a law was passed to lower the conscription age and tightening draft rules.
  — Patrick Reevell, ABC News, 1 Aug. 2024
• As the war in Vietnam wound down, conscription ended in 1973.
  — Robert D. McFadden, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Dec. 2019
• Olga had checked with the conscription office; Anatoliy was not on the rolls.
  — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2022
• At the time, the hordes of men who fled Russia to avoid conscription attracted the most attention.
  — Milana Mazaeva, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2023
• Evading conscription is punishable by three to five years in prison and a fine.
  — Helen Regan, CNN, 21 Feb. 2024
• Young men desperately trying to avoid conscription rushed to the border or to board planes to get out of the country.
  — Harold Maass, The Week, 29 Sep. 2022
• All Italian males of fighting age were subject to conscription in the German army.
  — Catherine Bailey, WSJ, 31 Jan. 2020
• While some Russian men were fleeing the prospect of conscription, others seemed resigned to their fate.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 23 Sep. 2022
• The Syrian Kurds spent four years in bed with the regime's enemy, the US, and there are many who fear both repression by the regime, and the conscription into the regime's army.
  — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, 23 Oct. 2019
• By the time my father arrived, the family’s story—the flight, the work camps, the loss of a first son to Red Army conscription—was all part of a past not often spoken of.
  — Daniel Mason, The Atlantic, 6 Apr. 2020
• The Korean conscription law is what put BTS on hiatus in 2022.
  — Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 7 Aug. 2024
• Fans in South Korea and abroad are transfixed by Son Heung-min’s conscription saga.
  — Eun-Young Jeong, WSJ, 30 Aug. 2018
• Farm employees are exempt from conscription, but many have joined out of a sense of duty.
  — Washington Post, 7 Apr. 2022
• Jin, the oldest member of BTS, is nearing 28, the upper age limit for conscription.
  — Naomi Xu Elegant, Fortune, 15 Oct. 2020
• Hundreds of thousands of men have left Russia to avoid conscription or have been killed or wounded in action.
  — Natalia Abbakumova, Washington Post, 30 July 2024
• The conscription issue has stoked the ire of many in the wider population who do not see these religious Jews as paying their way.
  — Washington Post, 10 June 2019
• He was jailed for three months for refusing conscription into the Ustaša army.
  — Washington Post, 5 Mar. 2021
• The vast demands of the war led both Union and Confederacy to impose forced conscription, and around 3 million men served.
  — Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 11 Nov. 2019
• But the oldest member Jin (real name Kim Seok-jin) is unlikely to be able to delay his conscription before the end of 2022.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 2 Dec. 2021
• But now people with children of conscription age are going to feel worried.
  — Fred Weir, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Sep. 2022
• Hundreds of thousands of its citizens have fled abroad to avoid conscription.
  — Matthew Chance, CNN, 24 Feb. 2024
• Adding women to the conscription pool was deemed impossible for decades.
  — Andrew Jeong, WSJ, 3 June 2021
• South Korea has compulsory conscription, and almost all healthy men are required to serve time in the army.
  — Julia Hollingsworth, CNN, 21 Nov. 2019
• The brigade relies mostly on its own recruiting rather than conscription, looking for motivation more than anything else.
  — Polina Lytvynova, NPR, 7 Sep. 2024
• More than four million troops were organized to repel a large land invasion — a blundering force with a huge officer corps that relied on young men serving two years of mandatory conscription service for the bulk of its manpower.
  — Sarah A. Topol, New York Times, 20 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Nov 2024