Example Sentences
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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
Meet the Hatchers’ neighbor Sheila Tubman, who gets dragooned into leaving Manhattan for the summer before starting fifth grade.
From New York Times ● Sep. 14, 2022
Ambulances, cars and pickup trucks were dragooned into service, ferrying the injured to hospitals.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 9, 2021
Rutherford dragooned the ever-faithful Chadwick into the search for the elusive neutron.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
