volunteer

In a sentence

Six example sentences with volunteer, each labelled with its topic.

• The regiment was raised entirely from volunteers, farm hands and clerks who signed on for three years.

  History

• The narrator enlists as a volunteer in 1914 and spends the first hundred pages simply waiting for orders.

  Literature

• The film follows a farm boy volunteer through basic training, ending before his unit ever leaves the country.

  Movies

• The minister argued that an army built from volunteers would cost less than a draft, since each recruit had chosen to serve.

  Politics

• The recruiting poster shows a young volunteer stepping forward from a crowd, hat raised, while older men look on from the doorway.

  Art

• Paying a volunteer a bounty to enlist raised wages in nearby towns, since farms had to compete for the same young men.

  Economics

Found in these word lists

Found in 3 published word listsAuthoritative

• Academic Word List (Coxhead 2000)
• New General Service List (Browne et al. 2013)
• Israeli Psychometric English dictionary (Campus IL / NITE)

Each source is a published word list that contains volunteer. No exam board publishes an official GRE, GMAT or SAT list; GMAT words come from GRE lists and the Academic Word List.

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