dragoon
Example Sentences
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An unassuming, enlightened type, he has been dragooned into choosing a bride only because his brawnier and better-loved brother, Prince Charming, is presumed dead after disappearing at war.
From New York Times
The grotesqueness of the sacrifice seems compounded for the Africans dragooned into fighting somebody else’s war.
From New York Times
As was also the case with Tom Stoppard’s Broadway hit “Leopoldstadt,” I sometimes felt in “Otto Frank” that the names of the camps and the litanies of loss were being dragooned into dramatic service illegitimately.
From New York Times
Restless late at night, Kennedy dragooned his son and nephew into joining him for drinks at a bar; each brought home a young woman.
From Los Angeles Times
But the latest effort to dragoon unwilling Ukrainian men to fight and kill other Ukrainians added a new element of terror to an already harsh existence under Russian rule in occupied Ukraine.
From New York Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
