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

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

It all nominally belonged to the State, which, however, granted no titles; “squatters” took up land where they chose without determined limits, and the embroilment continues, in a measure, to the present day.

From The Philippine Islands by Foreman, John