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

"I'll tell you something, my dear boy," continued Mr. Croyland, forgetting that he was speaking to the colonel of a dragoon regiment, and going back at a leap to early days.

From The Smuggler: (Vol's I-III) A Tale by James, G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford)