dragoon

Tiffany Haddish and Ike Barinholtz show up as spies who dragoon Cage into a covert operation that allows the filmmakers to shift to more commercial terrain and bring out the heavy artillery.

From New York Times ● Apr. 21, 2022

He rejected accounts of forced labor as "pure fiction," saying the Japanese army "did not dragoon Korean women to work in its brothels."

From Fox News ● Mar. 8, 2021

Complications ensue when Harry’s old flame and her spy brother dragoon him into thwarting Nazi plans to poison enemy cities with uranium.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 19, 2018

The phrasing means to conjure the previous discussion of leapfrogging pasts and futures, but why dragoon that parallel?

From Slate ● Dec. 4, 2015

Besides these, there were two young French chasseurs going home on leave of absence, a pretty Parisian dress-maker flying from the cholera, a masculine woman, the wife of a dragoon, and my friend the captain.

From Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe by Willis, N. Parker

The temple’s treasurer, desperate to avoid a scandal, dragoons Gabriel into finding out who’s behind these grisly deeds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 2025

Two horseshoes also found may relate to agricultural activity, or were lost by horses in the government cavalry, dragoons or artillery as they manoeuvred around the battlefield.

From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2021

On this date in 1862, Confederate Capt. Sherod Hunter entered Tucson with fewer than 130 dragoons and was greeted with a celebration.

From Washington Times ● Feb. 17, 2016

Lee, in turn, positions Tallmadge and his dragoons at the perilous “tip of the spear” in what could be a war-ending battle.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2015

“You remember Dr. Bulkeley told us he used to be a captain of the dragoons in Barbados.”

From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare

Some of these foreign workers volunteered; but many, like Leo, were dragooned and forced to go to Germany.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 13, 2026

Countries cannot be "dragooned" into joining a coalition aimed at protecting potential peace in Ukraine, Cabinet Office Minister Pat McFadden has said.

From BBC ● Mar. 9, 2025

The premise has the boys, the worst soldiers imaginable, coping with being dragooned into the U.S.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 3, 2024

An unassuming, enlightened type, he has been dragooned into choosing a bride only because his brawnier and better-loved brother, Prince Charming, is presumed dead after disappearing at war.

From New York Times ● Mar. 24, 2023

Rutherford dragooned the ever-faithful Chadwick into the search for the elusive neutron.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

For Jamin Liu, a former Mathcamper and counselor and now a bioengineering grad student at the University of California, San Francisco, Dr. Conway’s perpetual dragooning with games was more than just fun.

From New York Times ● May 16, 2020

These efforts form part of a tour-de-force demonstration of command economy agency, dragooning up to 600,000 people and mobilizing materiel from across the USSR.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 12, 2019

The daughter of a doctor and a nursing school dean, Ms. Nagle started making up stories as a child, dragooning her two younger sisters into acting them out with her.

From New York Times ● Jan. 17, 2018

Even dragooning Vitter’s teenage son, Jack, into making a spot, in which he vouched for his dad’s decency, failed.

From Salon ● Nov. 18, 2015

When a warm body was needed, Ernest would recruit almost off the street, like a Hollywood talent spotter dragooning a soda fountain girl into instant stardom.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik