drag into

phrasal verb

dragged into; dragging into; drags into
: to involve (a person, group, etc.) in (a difficult or complicated situation)
I'm sorry for dragging you into this.
We will not let the country be dragged into another war.

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Blood throughout the house led police to believe Yarborough was killed in the living room and dragged into the bathroom. Gina Barton, USA Today, 2 May 2025 As its neighbors in the Middle East have been plunged into regional conflict, Jordan has stood as a rare, neutral stronghold of peace, resisting being dragged into proxy war. Taylor Luck, Christian Science Monitor, 30 Apr. 2025 According to the legal docs, Diddy’s team believes the clip was tampered with to make the violence appear more intense, and the sequence of events was reordered to give a misleading impression of Cassie being dragged into a hotel room. Amber Corrine, VIBE.com, 18 Apr. 2025 Recent extensions for homegrown stars haven’t been done before offseason workouts and instead contract stalemates dragged into at least last July for George Kittle (2021), Fred Warner (2022), Deebo Samuel (2022), Nick Bosa (2023), and Brandon Aiyuk (2024). Cam Inman, Mercury News, 1 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for drag into

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“Drag into.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/drag%20into. Accessed 5 May. 2025.

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