embroilment

Example Sentences

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Although McElvaine acknowledges these rationales and motivations, particularly Johnson’s fear of looking politically weak, he places far too much stress on Johnson’s “manly” ego to explain America’s embroilment in Vietnam.

From Washington Post • Jul. 1, 2022

The Russian public is as averse to embroilment in foreign wars as any public anywhere.

From The Guardian • Sep. 11, 2016

Park Slope, Brooklyn, continues its embroilment over a new bike lane along Prospect Park West that is now the subject of a suit against the Transportation Department.

From New York Times • Mar. 9, 2011

This—Gawker Media’s surreal embroilment in the Gamergate sweepstakes—was hardly an editorial retraction, because there was nothing much to retract, aside from a bad tweet.

From Newsweek

But far more admirable is their foresight to save their country from any embroilment with other nations with whom they want to live in peace.

From Sir Jagadis Chunder Bose His Life and Speeches by Bose, Jagadis Chandra, Sir