Sentence examples similar to I got conscripted from inspiring English sources
If you were a Vietnam veteran and you came back and you walked in the street in uniform, it was not uncommon for people to harass you: "You were over there doing mean and nasty things and shooting babies". Well, they were soldiers who got conscripted in through the draft, which you don't have today.
A dealer we'd used as a source for a story on the Sarajevo drug market had gone home to Croatia, got conscripted, and then called us, somehow, from the front line, leaving a frenzied message: "You cannot imagine what is happening here!" He didn't leave his number in the trenches, and I don't think we would have called him if he had.
It all seemed sudden lads you went to school with were getting conscripted into the forces, I must admit I thought it was exciting, I lived in Haworth and a lot of mills went on long hours, mostly 6.30am to 5.3opm.
She starts as a scabby, dirty-minded teenager in wartime Danzig, who gets conscripted as a tram conductor.
I'm always ill at ease when I find myself conscripted by the media into the role of Expert on some subject about which I have rashly written.
