embroil

Example Sentences

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Those investments, experts say, help prevent regional conflict and war that may embroil the U.S.

From Salon • May 29, 2025

Desperate not to embroil a small, vulnerable immigrant community in an intense national controversy, they tried to avoid the issue.

From Slate • Apr. 10, 2025

The tail-docking blowup is just the latest controversy to embroil the company.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 20, 2023

King Charles is more famous than many heads of state, but he can also stay above the party politics that can embroil a president like Emmanuel Macron.

From BBC • Mar. 28, 2023

Canada may any day embroil England with the United States; and so may the West Indies, and the Nebraskan and Nicaraguan questions; and so may Newfoundland with France, and East or West Africa with Germany.

From Critical Studies by Ouida