Sentence examples for draft to take from inspiring English sources
A year ago, they traded up in the first round of the draft to take quarterback Mark Sanchez.
Thursday night, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers used the seventh pick of the first round of the N.F.L. draft to take Mark Barron, a safety.
They waited until the sixth round of the draft to take a quarterback, Alabama-Birmingham's Joe Webb, whom they considered moving to wide receiver.
"We didn't even go into the draft to take a quarterback," recalled Dick Haley, then the Jets' director of player personnel and now their senior personnel scout.
Carmelo Anthony of Syracuse, who led his team to its first national championship, announced yesterday that he will enter the N.B.A. draft, to take place June 26.
After finishing 4-12 in 2003, the Chargers used the No. 1 pick in the 2004 draft to take Eli Manning, against his wishes.
Among the steps taken last year, Archbishop Flynn was drafted to take over the chairmanship of the bishops' Ad Hoc Committee on Sexual Abuse.
Mr. Creighton, a UAL director, was drafted to take over the company after the board concluded that relations between the unions and James C. Goodwin, the airline's former chief, had become too poisonous.
Though still billed second (after another suddenly successful, late-blooming star: Ida Lupino), Bogart owned the movie as Roy Earle, an aging gangster clearly based on Dillinger who is drafted to take part in the ill-conceived robbery of a resort hotel.
Chopp, an industry consultant who had joined Northwest two years earlier, was drafted to take over as chief executive.
