send in

1. Cause to be dispatched or delivered, as in Let's send in a letter of protest to the hiring committee . [Early 1700s]

2. Cause someone to become involved in a particular undertaking, as in This disagreement is serious; it's time to send in the lawyers , or In the final few minutes the coach sent in Richard on right wing . [Mid-1800s]

Example Sentences

Arab governments were reluctant to send in troops and look like occupiers working for Israel and wanted a commitment to a Palestinian state before coming in.

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"We all send in a book, then we vote between them on which one we want to read. Most of the time it's been a lot of Taylor Jenkins Reid's novels," said Snoeijs.

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"They want mayhem on the ground. They want to create the war zone so that they can send in even more troops," he told CNN's Jake Tapper.

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Rabbit, 48, said he hadn’t heard of the president’s plan to send in the National Guard, but didn’t think it was necessary.

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Oregon’s attorney general filed a lawsuit Monday alleging the president had applied a “baseless, wildly hyperbolic pretext” to send in the troops.

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