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

Investors were on guard for the potential of the conflict spreading to embroil other countries, including Iran, and a continued spike in oil prices.

From Reuters • Oct. 9, 2023

Prosecutors say the bid-rigging scandal arrests have just begun and could embroil more companies.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 7, 2023

Men of such undisciplined natures as those of the people of the river-drift could not exist together harmoniously; very little, indeed, was necessary to embroil them in bitter strife.

From Women of England by James, Bartlett Burleigh