Sentence examples for draftee from inspiring English sources

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draftee

noun

One who is drafted (into a military service, etc)

Exact(60)

Moreover, he is a draftee, not a volunteer.

In 1955 he made his Broadway debut in No Time for Sergeants and earned a Tony Award nomination for his portayal of an air force draftee.

For four days in July 1863 many thousands of rioters, mostly impoverished Irish immigrants who were infuriated by the new draft law that permitted a draftee to buy his way out of service, swept the city, looting, burning, and killing.

Yount had called up Meredith, a celebrity draftee in the Air Forces, and within days McKelway was contacted by a recruiting major, who met him for lunch at "21" and sounded him out about the B-29 P.R. job.

Chris knocked about for a while before entering military service; he's not a callow adolescent volunteer or an unwilling draftee but an adult who brings a formed sensibility to his service — making him both uniquely gifted in the field and uniquely tormented by his actions there.

On his first day as a draftee into Shabaab, the instructor, upset with him, had pulled him up by the scruff of his neck, shouting in Somali "Waxyahow yar!" — "You young thing!" The sobriquet stuck, and he answers to it now.

(The Yankees returned Hoffmann, a Rule 5 draftee, to the Dodgers later in the day).

One of the first reported confrontations occurred between a draft official and the wife of a draftee.

In the three-team trade, the Blazers acquired the draft rights to Jordan Hamilton (No. 26) and Targuy Ngombo (No. 57) from the Mavericks in exchange for Rudy Fernandez and 2007 draftee Petteri Koponen.

At the time, Rosen was the freshman third-stringer at Clarkson behind Paul Karpowich, a St . LouisBlues draftee in 2008.

The fact that it was Greg Maddux, a 1984 draftee who owns more victories than any pitcher alive, is beside the point.

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