RECRUIT in a Sentence

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59 example sentences for RECRUIT, such as:
1. New recruits have been undergoing training in recent weeks.
2. Our football fan club began to recruit new members last week.
3. These recruits displayed some of the French ingenuity and fury.
4. The police are trying to recruit more black and Asian officers.
5. This is a nationwide campaign to recruit women into trade unions.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of RECRUIT
recruit
 n.  any new member or supporter (as in the armed forces)
 v.  register formally as a participant or member
Classic Sentence: (28 in 2 pages)
1  On the contrary, he needed occupation and distraction quite apart from his love, so as to recruit and rest himself from the violent emotions that agitated him.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 18
2  To find Ned Silverton among the habitual frequenters of Mrs. Hatch's drawing-room was one of Lily's first astonishments; but she soon discovered that he was not Mr. Stancy's most important recruit.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 9
3  Another, a young lad, a fair-haired recruit as white as though there was no blood in his thin face, looked at Pierre kindly, with a fixed smile.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XX
4  Other associations sought to recruit themselves from the great mother societies.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—FACTS WHENCE HISTORY SPRINGS AND WHICH HISTORY ...
5  There was in the English infantry, particularly in Kempt's brigade, a great many raw recruits.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—THE QUID OBSCURUM OF BATTLES
6  These recruits displayed some of the French ingenuity and fury.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—THE QUID OBSCURUM OF BATTLES
7  The rule of the Perpetual Adoration is so rigid in its nature that it alarms, vocations recoil before it, the order receives no recruits.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER XI—END OF THE PETIT-PICPUS
8  Our recruits from Bearn are not generally very rich, and I have no reason to think matters have much changed in this respect since I left the province.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 3 THE AUDIENCE
9  The troop of cavalry had been organized three months before, the very day that Georgia seceded from the Union, and since then the recruits had been whistling for war.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
10  Still, he could not put a whole faith in veteran's tales, for recruits were their prey.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
11  Orders were given to raise recruits, ten men in every thousand for the regular army, and besides this, nine men in every thousand for the militia.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER X
12  Militiamen and recruits were being enrolled in the villages, and from the seat of war came contradictory news, false as usual and therefore variously interpreted.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VIII
13  But first they resolved to sell the goods the ship, and then go to Madagascar for recruits, several among them having died since my confinement.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 4: CHAPTER I.
14  I made his acquaintance in Tver when I was there on official business, and he came there for the levy of recruits.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 11
15  As the piano had twice begun the prelude to the first figure Mary Jane led her recruits quickly from the room.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In THE DEAD
Example Sentence: (31 in 3 pages)
1  They didn't admit they were defeated; they began to recruit and attempted to stage a comeback.
2  This is a nationwide campaign to recruit women into trade unions.
3  The police are trying to recruit more black and Asian officers.
4  We only recruit go-getters who will be actively involved in the company's development.
5  Our football fan club began to recruit new members last week.
6  A massive exodus of doctors is forcing the government to recruit from abroad.
7  As a result, firms employing them need to recruit frequently to replace those who choose not to renew their contracts.
8  Any disappointment of employers who came to recruit is a reflection of the state's tough economy.
9  The drill master told the recruit to wipe the blood from his sword before slipping it back into the scabbard.
10  The captain did his best to foster a sense of unity among the new recruits.
11  New recruits undergo six weeks' basic training at this naval base.
12  New recruits have been undergoing training in recent weeks.
13  A common way for companies to find new recruits is by taking a stand at a job exhibition.
14  The recruits were thoroughly vetted before they were allowed into the secret service.
15  Potential recruits will be encouraged to use an online tool to test their motivational profile and will be enticed by statistics claiming more than one thousand different jobs in the army across one hundred and forty different trades.