How to Use recruit in a Sentence

recruit

1 of 2 verb
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  • I recruited my brother to drive us to the concert.
  • He was recruited by the army after high school.
  • We recruited a crew of volunteers to help us.
  • She recruited four friends to distribute food to the homeless with her.
  • Some parents don't think the military should be recruiting from high schools.
  • College football coaches spend a lot of time recruiting.
  • College football coaches spend a lot of time recruiting high school athletes.
  • Public schools are recruiting new teachers.
  • Says coaches can use the time to go out and recruit in the area ahead of the game.
    — Matt Stahl | Mstahl@al.com, al, 14 Sep. 2023
  • For the last 34 years, has recruited players for his All-Starr Band.
    — Melinda Newman, Billboard, 13 Oct. 2023
  • Young women like Dot Wilkinson were recruited straight out of the halls of high school.
    — Denise Kiernan, Rolling Stone, 17 July 2023
  • For the first time in its 27 seasons, The Bachelor recruited a man old enough for Medicare to be the face of the franchise.
    — Dianna Mazzone, Allure, 21 Nov. 2023
  • And the state has managed, by hook and by crook, to continue recruiting men into the armed forces.
    — Keith Gessen, The New Yorker, 15 Feb. 2024
  • Back then, the Tigers had recruited Texas players more heavily as a member of the Big 12, which was based in Texas and had four teams in the state.
    — Brent Schrotenboer, USA TODAY, 19 Aug. 2023
  • That off-season, Texas found a new — or at least, newly legal — way to recruit them: cash.
    — Billy Witz, New York Times, 31 Dec. 2023
  • But after a 12-20 campaign the coach who recruited him to campus, Nathan Davis, was fired.
    — Akeem Glaspie, The Indianapolis Star, 9 Jan. 2024
  • The school began recruiting kids to be a part of the inaugural season in spring 2017.
    — Shelby Dermer, The Enquirer, 7 June 2023
  • Two athletes declined to complete the questionnaire, Rainey said, so the school did not recruit them.
    — Kenny Jacoby, USA Today, 13 July 2023
  • The model had driven the social work school to recruit more and more students to cover overhead.
    — Matt Hamilton, Los Angeles Times, 11 Nov. 2023
  • The team went so far as to recruit fans and locals to help shovel snow in the stadium for $20 an hour ahead of Monday's contest.
    — Rishikesh Rajagopalan, CBS News, 14 Jan. 2024
  • The left side is more of a question mark, though Saban and company have recruited the spot well.
    — Matt Stahl | Mstahl@al.com, al, 29 July 2023
  • Mustafa recruited a cousin to transport some files to Turkey.
    — Ben Taub, The New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Sanders openly pushed many players out of the program and recruited a wave of transfers.
    — Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 11 Nov. 2023
  • So the director once again pivoted, recruiting Doll and Liyah Mitchell to the project to round out her central cast.
    — Elaina Patton, NBC News, 28 July 2023
  • Part of the challenge has been trying to recruit another 43 staff to work at the remote base and provide the care that’s needed, Henry said.
    — Sean Maguire, Anchorage Daily News, 24 June 2023
  • The company has made attempts to recruit hackney carriage drivers in the past.
    — Helen Chandler-Wilde, Fortune Europe, 29 Nov. 2023
  • Blacksmiths were critical to town life in the 19th century, so much so that town founder Joseph Naper recruited one to move to Naperville from Ohio.
    — Steve Metsch and Andrea Field, Chicago Tribune, 26 Jan. 2024
  • Ash Arnott, a former assistant coach with the program, coached Joe but kept an eye on the younger Furphy and later recruited him in 2018.
    — Shreyas Laddha, Kansas City Star, 1 Mar. 2024
  • The moves that involve pushing also recruit your shoulders, core, back, and triceps.
    — Women's Health Editors, Women's Health, 14 June 2023
  • He was raised in the Bronx mostly by his mother, Jewel Robinson, who recruited him in the kitchen to help with her catering company.
    — Liza Weisstuch, Robb Report, 4 Nov. 2023
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recruit

2 of 2 noun
  • She's one of the department's new recruits.
  • But their pride in Rex, the top recruit in the class of 2023, is clear.
    — Luca Evans, Los Angeles Times, 6 May 2023
  • Marist’s Stephen Brown is one of the top recruits in Illinois in the 2026 class.
    — Steve Millar, Chicago Tribune, 26 Jan. 2024
  • The number of recruits dwindled from 28 to just 10 by the end of boot camp.
    — Sam Russek, The New Republic, 20 Oct. 2023
  • In Class 57, a great deal is riding on the year’s 28 recruits.
    — Sam Russek, The New Republic, 20 Oct. 2023
  • With nine recruits on board, the Aztecs aren’t far behind the pace this year.
    — Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Oct. 2023
  • The three-star recruit was the first defensive back in the class to commit.
    — Jr Radcliffe, Journal Sentinel, 6 June 2023
  • The Ducks could now be in a position to land the first five-star recruit from the state of Idaho.
    — Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 1 Feb. 2024
  • His office said that the move brought in hundreds of recruits from all over the country.
    — Adam Shaw, Fox News, 9 Apr. 2024
  • Since then, new coaches have come and gone, and vast sums have been spent on new recruits.
    — Tariq Panja, New York Times, 24 Dec. 2023
  • The following year, Domani Jackson was the top recruit in the state.
    — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 4 Aug. 2023
  • Afeni Shakur, former leader of a street gang, was one of these recruits.
    — Keisha N. Blain, The New Republic, 3 Aug. 2023
  • The 3-star recruit has nearly 40 offers from across the country.
    — Ben Thomas | Bthomas@al.com, al, 8 July 2023
  • One of Ohio's top 2024 recruits has narrowed his college choice to six schools.
    — Shelby Dermer, The Enquirer, 25 May 2023
  • At least one in four recruits who left jail with Mr. Mokin in October 2022 were killed.
    — Oleg Matsnev Gray Beltran, New York Times, 4 Dec. 2023
  • The top defensive recruit in Oregon’s 2023 class is the future of the position for the Ducks.
    — oregonlive, 1 Aug. 2023
  • The South Carolina recruit won’t catch the Lemont’s all-time leader for strikeouts.
    — Tony Baranek, Chicago Tribune, 8 May 2023
  • The recruits, some of whom are young women, are also going to be charged, Bonta said.
    — Ishani Desai, Sacramento Bee, 17 Feb. 2024
  • Some now sell weapons to traffickers, join one gang in the fight against another, recruit members from the gangs.
    — Paulina Villegas, Washington Post, 26 Sep. 2023
  • Lee is rated the 19th-best defensive lineman and the 97th-best overall recruit in the Dallas area.
    — Greg Riddle, Dallas News, 7 Aug. 2023
  • The five-star offensive line recruit was with the program for four years and earned the starting right tackle spot before losing the job.
    — Jr Radcliffe, Journal Sentinel, 2 May 2023
  • From camps to game-day invites, seeing a recruit in person can go along way in the process of offering a player.
    — Matt Lofgren, cleveland, 15 Sep. 2023
  • Haase’s second class also had three four-star recruits.
    — Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 7 Mar. 2024
  • But the former five-star recruit also seems to be embracing every bit of it, and so are his teammates.
    — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 31 Aug. 2023
  • His recruits were seen as barring the way for the next generation of graduates from De Toekomst.
    — Rory Smith, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2023
  • Flowers was once a three-star recruit who didn’t receive a steady stream of offers until his junior year of high school.
    — Trevor Hass, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Apr. 2023
  • Zoe Saldaña will play Joe, the station chief who is in charge of training the Lioness program’s young recruits for on-the-ground missions.
    — Vulture, 8 June 2023
  • Lame will play a food delivery driver turned CIA recruit who is up against a group of arms dealers in Europe.
    — Adam Wescott, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2024
  • Opened in 1917 as a training camp for soldiers, it was used as a recruit training post and prisoner of war camp during World War II.
    — Baltimore Sun, 12 May 2023
  • Payne also missed on his first big high school recruit, D.J. Wagner.
    — C.l. Brown, The Courier-Journal, 13 May 2023

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