embroilment

Example Sentences

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“Facts had often been casualties in Vietnam,” White notes of America’s long embroilment in the country, and the war’s final act was no exception.

From Washington Post • Mar. 22, 2023

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

"I scarcely see how to take this," he said, being clever enough to suppose that a dash of candour might sweeten the embroilment.

From Springhaven : a Tale of the Great War by Blackmore, R. D. (Richard Doddridge)