Sentence examples for draft could not from inspiring English sources

Democratic politicians gave ominous warnings that the draft could not be enforced, but no one could predict what the day held.

She had 46 tanks, of deck, and at her full load draft, could not navigate the English Channel.

Temporarily blinded by shell fragments and gunpowder residue from the explosion and believing the pilothouse to be severely damaged, Worden ordered Williams to sheer off into shallow water, where Virginia with her deep draft could not follow.

Despite the fact that Casteel's initial art drew on a long established line of historical portraiture, viewers of her early drafts couldn't get past the hip-hop clothes of the figure because it echoed a singular and familiar ideal of blackness.

The teams had talked before the draft but could not come to an agreement.

He replied that, although he had nearly finished the first draft, he could not possibly get it typed so soon.

On the one hand, Embiid's draft stock could not get any higher; if he stays in college, there's the risk that it will go down.

The other vessel Zee-Ploeg escaped into shallow coastal waters, where the deeper drafted frigate could not follow.

And the irony was that, with a felony for forging draft papers, he could not be drafted.

When I finished the first draft, I couldn't stop myself, and I began drafting the rest of the trilogy (and making notes for possible spin-offs).

"Leading up to the draft, I couldn't help but think that this should've been Eric's draft class," Schiano, entering his first season with the Buccaneers, said in a statement.