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

I find that when I'm in a relationship, I'm just so "in it", you couldn't even call it an art, it's such embroilment.

From The Guardian • Jan. 19, 2013

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

While she languished thus, Bahá’u’lláh dispatched Hádíy-i-Qazvíní, husband of the celebrated Khátún-Ján, from the capital, and they managed, by a stratagem, to free her from that embroilment and got her to Ṭihrán in the night.

From Memorials of the Faithful by `Abdu'l-Bahá