ENLIST in a Sentence

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For ENLIST, below is one of 33 sentences:
You see, when I enlisted I sold most of my land and I put all my money in Confederate bonds and you know what they're worth now.

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 Meanings and Examples of ENLIST
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enlist
 v.  enter on a list; enroll; register; engage for military or naval service
Classic Sentence: (26 in 2 pages)
1  The only way to redeem yourself is to enlist after you sell your boats.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
2  Any prisoner who will take the oath of allegiance and enlist for Indian service for two years will be released and sent West.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
3  Cy was to be heard publishing it abroad that if he couldn't get the Widow Bogart's permission to enlist, he'd run away and enlist without it.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
4  Nor, in quite other aspects, does Nature in her least palpable but not the less malicious agencies, fail to enlist among her forces this crowning attribute of the terrible.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 42. The Whiteness of The Whale.
5  Some ten days after the French ships sailed, the whale-boat arrived, and the captain was forced to enlist some of the more civilized Tahitians, who had been somewhat used to the sea.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 54. The Town-Ho's Story.
6  Such an innovation on the silence and retirement of the forest could not fail to enlist the ears of those who journeyed at so short a distance in advance.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 2
7  He had burned several times to enlist.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
8  She would give him neither money nor food nor house-room; and so he was obliged to enlist himself as a sheriff's man.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In THE BOARDING HOUSE
9  Again Miss Davidson began making efforts to enlist the interest and help of the coloured and white people in and near Tuskegee.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XII.
10  Maybe we should have believed what Scarlett and Melanie said about him enlisting the day the town fell.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LII
11  Army chaplains found here new and fruitful fields; "superintendents of contrabands" multiplied, and some attempt at systematic work was made by enlisting the able-bodied men and giving work to the others.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In II
12  You see, when I enlisted I sold most of my land and I put all my money in Confederate bonds and you know what they're worth now.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
13  As, for instance, neither of us believed in the war but I enlisted and fought and he stayed out till nearly the end.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIII
14  Stimulated by apprehension, he left the scout, who immediately entered into a loud conversation with the stranger that had so unceremoniously enlisted himself in the party of travelers that morning.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 4
15  The contest gradually grew warmer, until it was quite evident the feelings of the speakers began to be somewhat enlisted in the debate.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 19
Example Sentence:
1  It seems strange to me that all round me do not burn to enlist, but join in the same enterprise.
2  We've got to enlist some people to help prepare the food.
3  His main nightmare is voluntarily enlisting in the Army again and being sent back to Iraq.
4  After enlisting in the Marines after high school, he served as a lance corporal and tank crewman, earning three medals.
5  They both enlisted a year before the war broke out.
6  We enlisted them to serve as ushers at the meeting.
7  Canadians seek enlistment in the US Marines because they don't see as much opportunity in the Canadian armed forces.