dragoon
Example Sentences
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The temple’s treasurer, desperate to avoid a scandal, dragoons Gabriel into finding out who’s behind these grisly deeds.
Countries cannot be "dragooned" into joining a coalition aimed at protecting potential peace in Ukraine, Cabinet Office Minister Pat McFadden has said.
From BBC
The premise has the boys, the worst soldiers imaginable, coping with being dragooned into the U.S.
From Los Angeles Times
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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.