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
Besides these, there were two young French chasseurs going home on leave of absence, a pretty Parisian dress-maker flying from the cholera, a masculine woman, the wife of a dragoon, and my friend the captain.
From Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe by Willis, N. Parker
