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Usage examples of drafted.

The interesting thing to us now is that the soldiers are all drafted and a good number of them are draft dodgers.

Volunteers, drafted from the street of course, worked ahead of us to make sure we didn't meet any roadblocks or MPs.

Adler spoke a few muted words of welcome--this speech, drafted at Foggy Bottom, had taken an hour to get right, which amounted to about a minute to the world.

Prime Minister, and it came at a sensitive moment," Ryan said, wondering if the truth sounded good enough, wondering if Arnaud had even read it--well, of course he had, though he probably hadn't drafted it.

The rest went to his lead technician, a competent Sudanese, while the doctor drafted a fax.

If it were to be his professional swan song, then it had to be done properly, and this reporter, who had drafted quite a few obituaries for others, both admired and not, wanted his own to be just right.

If your next-door neighbor told you he was kiting checks drafted on your personal bank, you think maybe you might call the police about it?

Regarding the destruction of the germ-warfare lab outside Tehran, the only journalists who ever got in there were those two Russians that their embassy drafted for the purpose.

Many of the players drafted or acquired by the Oakland A's had been the victims of an unthinking prejudice rooted in baseball's traditions.

Twenty-two years later, after more than sixty of his players, and two of his nephews, had been drafted to play pro baseball, Blalock would say that he had yet to see another athlete of Billy's caliber.

For instance, the Oakland A's were able to pay their All-Star pitcher Barry Zito $200,000 in 2000, $240,000 in 2001, and $500,000 in 2002 (when he would win the Cy Young Award as the best pitcher in the American League) because they had drafted him in 1999.

Giambi was a natural hitter who developed power only after the Oakland A's drafted him.

The Red Sox had drafted Brown the year before, and Brown had turned down the peanuts they'd offered and returned to the University of Alabama for his senior year.

He was half Billy's size, and had a fraction of Billy's promise—which is why the Mets hadn't drafted him until the thirteenth round.

Army—he was the last man from Kansas drafted to serve in Vietnam but never was sent—and a fruitless layover in graduate school, he found a job as the nightwatchman in a Stokely Van Camp pork and beans factory.