embroilment

Example Sentences

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What takes up the book’s pages instead is Bill’s embroilment in another matter of questionable scaffolding: construction-related fraud in the condo board of the high-rise where Bill’s father, Melsor, lives.

From Washington Post • Feb. 23, 2018

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

If he think, In this embroilment of events, one word Or deed of mine hath wrought him injury, I am not careful to prolong my life Beneath such imputation.

From The Seven Plays in English Verse by Sophocles