embroil

Example Sentences

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Those investments, experts say, help prevent regional conflict and war that may embroil the U.S.

From Salon • May 29, 2025

Desperate not to embroil a small, vulnerable immigrant community in an intense national controversy, they tried to avoid the issue.

From Slate • Apr. 10, 2025

Prosecutors say the bid-rigging scandal arrests have just begun and could embroil more companies.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 7, 2023

"We need to avoid a major conflict that will embroil the United States or indeed the countries in the region," presidential adviser Anwar Gargash told the US-based Arab Gulf States Institute last Thursday.

From BBC • Dec. 13, 2021

It was desirable to embroil as few as possible in the Lancaster dispute.

From The Plow-Woman by Gates, Eleanor