Example Sentences

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"We need to avoid a major conflict that will embroil the United States or indeed the countries in the region," presidential adviser Anwar Gargash told the US-based Arab Gulf States Institute last Thursday.

From BBC • Dec. 13, 2021

"We need to avoid a major conflict that will embroil the United States or indeed the countries in the region," senior UAE official Anwar Gargash told a U.S.-based think-tank on Thursday.

From Reuters • Dec. 12, 2021

But the letter is clever, and if Henriot be like other husbands, it will embroil him at once with his wife, Turenne, the Guises, and even with Spain.

From The Forty-Five Guardsmen by Dumas père, Alexandre

"Yes, but some fine morning some new love will embroil them completely."

From The Forty-Five Guardsmen by Dumas père, Alexandre

Be sure he has an eye on your fair lands, and he will embroil you yet with the English king if he can, that he may lay claim to your patrimony.

From The Lord of Dynevor by Everett-Green, Evelyn