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 130 The horseman on this brass plate, designed with a rather crude, childlike simplicity, is garbed quite differently than the Regular dragoon on the 1812 pewter specimen.
From American Military Insignia 1800-1851 by Campbell, J. Duncan
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
