Sentence examples for first to enlist from inspiring English sources
She was one of the first to enlist in her regiment, demanding to be a fighter pilot.
Who, then, were those volunteers -- the first to enlist, the first to taste battle, the first to die?
Uniquely, the inscription on Ingham's monument alludes to the circumstances of his end: "Shot at dawn, one of the first to enlist, a worthy son to his father".
ABC News was one of the first to enlist her, as well as Lyz Glick, another widow, barely a week into their bereavement.
"The prospect of success was much brighter than before, for Abraham Lincoln had become a very popular man; the first to enlist and the last to leave, he was thought to have distinguished himself as a military man.
John Harris, an English theologian and scientist, may have been one of the first to enlist the aid of experts, such as the naturalist John Ray and Sir Isaac Newton, in compiling his Lexicon Technicum (1704; "Technical Lexicon").
Stewart was a Princeton graduate, and one of the first stars to enlist in the Second World War, flying twenty bombing missions and retiring from the Air Force Reserves in 1968 with the rank of brigadier general; Mitchum was jailed for marijuana possession in 1948.
As the war began, Moscow barred women from combat, and Ms. Popova was turned down when she first tried to enlist as a pilot.
He became a symbol of heroism for Australians, but when he first tried to enlist in the military, he was rejected.
He first tried to enlist at 17, but recruits that young need written permission from a parent or guardian, and when a recruiter came to her salon to get it, she told him to leave.
Writing in the era of the landmark 1947 Supreme Court case Everson v. Board of Education, which put the issue of indirect state support for parochial schools in the national spotlight, Parsons and Murray used the "first freedom" to enlist history as a safeguard to Catholic practice in an overwhelmingly Protestant nation.
