Sentence examples for is conscripted as from inspiring English sources

With her parents and four brothers and sisters dead, she is conscripted as a child soldier, practices stabbing scarecrows dressed as Vietnamese soldiers, and at one point shoots a rifle shouting, "I'll kill them!

As Papageno, the birdlike bird catcher who is conscripted as the prince's reluctant companion on a journey to enlightenment, the hearty-voiced baritone Philip Cutlip, in his company debut, was a charmer.

With the outbreak of the Second World War Sheridan was conscripted as an ambulance driver.

This year, a favorable ruling could decide whether laptop cameras can be conscripted as spies or smartphones become permanent homing beacons.

INSECTS have been conscripted as weapons of war, tools of terrorism and instruments of torture for thousands of years.

He said that after the war, many young women and girls who were "conscripted as bush wives" were more stigmatized than were other victims of sexual violence.

In the Philippines, where women were conscripted as "comfort women" and routinely raped by Japanese soldiers during World War II, victims continue to seek arbitration and restitution.

They've been conscripted as both buffoons and villains in comics and movies, used to sell cigarettes and paperbacks, and appropriated by the National Hockey League.

Others cited two specific reasons for flight: they were frightened that their sons would be conscripted as Isis fighters or that their unmarried daughters would be forcibly married to Isis fighters.

The wife became the possession of a young rebel; the four-year-old boy was conscripted as a porter; and the baby, when he wouldn't stop crying, was thrown into a latrine and died).

So it's only natural that he'll be conscripted as a gay icon, joining near contemporaries like Charles Demuth and Marsden Hartley, who were also in the historical closet until not so long ago.