conscript
verb (used with object)
to draft for military or naval service.
are conscripting
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present progressiveof conscript.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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“If it has come to this, that you are conscripting somebody my age, then Biafra has died,” the elderly man said quietly.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
We are giving a bounty to all who freely enlist, and are conscripting those who refuse.
From Nurse and Spy in the Union Army The Adventures and Experiences of a Woman in Hospitals, Camps, and Battle-Fields by S. Emma E. Edmonds
