Sentence examples for wait to be drafted from inspiring English sources

"I couldn't wait to be drafted.

Rather than wait to be drafted into the Army, Slater joined the Navy.

On Monday, the dean at Columbia, where I was a student, assembled us and urged: "Don't wait to be drafted.

But the recruiters told him to wait to be drafted and that counterintelligence officers might contact him after he was in the Army.

"It's been a great process, an exciting one and I wouldn't trade it for the world, I just can't wait to be drafted," said Ajayi, who moved to the USA when he was seven years old.

He started on a thousand-page novel about a mental hospital (never published) while waiting to be drafted.

Tired of waiting to be drafted, he joined the Army in early 1941 and served with the Army Signal Corps, setting up radar equipment in the South Pacific.

Only when he joined the merchant marine did he complete "Dangling Man", about a Chicagoan waiting to be drafted.By the time "Augie" made his name, Mr Bellow was 38.

There are no swingers here, only an unhappy, listless young man (Gary Lockwood) waiting to be drafted and sent to Vietnam, and a slightly older French woman (Anouk Aimée) who catches his eye in a Los Angeles parking lot.

In other connections, it was brought out that the Sergeant had not waited to be drafted, that he was currently in line for the Bronze Star, and that in the course of his overseas duty he had been awarded five medals, of varying importance, and had a conduct rating of Excellent.

This volume follows the trajectory of Bellow's writing from the "square and honest" semi-autobiography of Dangling Man, waiting to be drafted into the army in 1943, married and cheating on his young wife, to the primal layered complexity of Moses Herzog, the interiorised "near delirium and wide-ranging disordered thought" out of which he constructed his masterpiece, Herzog, in 1964.