dragoon

Example Sentences

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Tiffany Haddish and Ike Barinholtz show up as spies who dragoon Cage into a covert operation that allows the filmmakers to shift to more commercial terrain and bring out the heavy artillery.

From New York Times • Apr. 21, 2022

He rejected accounts of forced labor as "pure fiction," saying the Japanese army "did not dragoon Korean women to work in its brothels."

From Fox News • Mar. 8, 2021

Complications ensue when Harry’s old flame and her spy brother dragoon him into thwarting Nazi plans to poison enemy cities with uranium.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 19, 2018

The phrasing means to conjure the previous discussion of leapfrogging pasts and futures, but why dragoon that parallel?

From Slate • Dec. 4, 2015

Figure 150 This cap plate is a somewhat wider variation of the 1833 dragoon device than most of the Militia plates of that type popular in the late 1830's and the 1840's.

From American Military Insignia 1800-1851 by Campbell, J. Duncan