What is "recruits"

Usage examples of "recruits".

Corporal Devlin went to fetch Stammel, and Bosk moved around the room, positioning recruits beside each bunk, ready for inspection.

Mostly the recruits looked like farm boys and prentices, with a few puffy-faced men beyond her experience.

The other recruits shuffled into four lines of five persons each, except that the first file was one short.

They picked up new recruits in most of the towns they passed, until their group numbered thirty-eight.

As the recruits struggled with the bedding, they walked from place to place, explaining and criticizing.

Then he looked at his recruits, twitching a sleeve into place, here, asking about the fit of the boots, there.

Two recruits let their reeds lag behind the turn, and the tips bumped neighboring reeds.

Rumors swarmed over the stronghold like hornets, stinging all the recruits with excitement and curiosity.

East, fifty recruits filled holes and ruts and cleaned out the side-ditches.

He said little that any of the recruits could hear, but his sharp glance seemed everywhere at once.

He appeared in one barracks when the recruits were just getting up, and in another while they were sanding the floor.

The recruits got another lecture, from the captains, and then a final one from their own sergeants.

Paks had been assigned four recruits to introduce to their new life, three men and one woman.

Paks looked away, swallowed again, and introduced her own recruits, pointing a finger at each in turn.

They began with the same drill the recruits knew, but they picked up the tempo smoothly, until it was much faster.