How to Use dragoon in a Sentence

dragoon

verb

• 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.
  — Laura Collins-Hughes, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2018
• The relatively small number of women who are fertile are dragooned as handmaids, child-bearing slaves for married couples.
  — David Wiegand, San Francisco Chronicle, 20 Apr. 2018
• The military also dragoons troops at nearby Camp Pendleton and armor and military police reserve depots nationwide to help staff the show.
  — Carl Prine, sandiegouniontribune.com, 24 Sep. 2017
• McMaster, who came to fame with his book about the career military’s failure to live up to its values during the Vietnam War, has walked a fine line, too often dragooned into service to explain away Trump’s lies, threats, or mistakes.
  — James Fallows, The Atlantic, 31 Oct. 2017
• His sole opponent, Moussa Mustafa Moussa, was dragooned into service hours before the registration deadline to avoid the embarrassment of a one-man race.
  — The Economist, 8 Mar. 2018
• He's dragooned away from this life into a case investigating an insurance claim by a former Wehrmacht soldier who served in Greece during the war and may have been trafficking loot stolen from Jews being deported to Auschwitz.
  — Steve Donoghue, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Apr. 2018
• What that is may be a bit vague, as they’ve been dragooned by a mysterious government agency into finding an agent who’s disappeared into the extraterrestrial vortex.
  — John Anderson, WSJ, 28 Sep. 2017
• The move comes after public outcry over American’s move to shrink legroom, which was announced right about the time United Airlines dragooned a passenger off a plane and Congress berated airline executives for their poor treatment of passengers.
  — Fredrick Kunkle, Washington Post, 13 June 2017
• Internet-of-things devices frequently have dismal security (which, apart from making them vulnerable to being dragooned into botnets, also makes them a gift to spies).
  — David Meyer, Fortune, 1 Mar. 2018
• At any given moment, they can be dragooned by a presidential tweet into yet another fight to protect Trump, his associates, and his business empire, from independent scrutiny.
  — Ed Kilgore, Daily Intelligencer, 2 Feb. 2018
• The experiences of Njinga’s subjects—enslaved, sacrificed, or dragooned into endless wars—remain sadly unrecoverable.
  — David Owen, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2017
• 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.
  — Laura Collins-Hughes, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2018
• The relatively small number of women who are fertile are dragooned as handmaids, child-bearing slaves for married couples.
  — David Wiegand, San Francisco Chronicle, 20 Apr. 2018
• The military also dragoons troops at nearby Camp Pendleton and armor and military police reserve depots nationwide to help staff the show.
  — Carl Prine, sandiegouniontribune.com, 24 Sep. 2017
• McMaster, who came to fame with his book about the career military’s failure to live up to its values during the Vietnam War, has walked a fine line, too often dragooned into service to explain away Trump’s lies, threats, or mistakes.
  — James Fallows, The Atlantic, 31 Oct. 2017
• His sole opponent, Moussa Mustafa Moussa, was dragooned into service hours before the registration deadline to avoid the embarrassment of a one-man race.
  — The Economist, 8 Mar. 2018
• He's dragooned away from this life into a case investigating an insurance claim by a former Wehrmacht soldier who served in Greece during the war and may have been trafficking loot stolen from Jews being deported to Auschwitz.
  — Steve Donoghue, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Apr. 2018
• What that is may be a bit vague, as they’ve been dragooned by a mysterious government agency into finding an agent who’s disappeared into the extraterrestrial vortex.
  — John Anderson, WSJ, 28 Sep. 2017
• The move comes after public outcry over American’s move to shrink legroom, which was announced right about the time United Airlines dragooned a passenger off a plane and Congress berated airline executives for their poor treatment of passengers.
  — Fredrick Kunkle, Washington Post, 13 June 2017
• Internet-of-things devices frequently have dismal security (which, apart from making them vulnerable to being dragooned into botnets, also makes them a gift to spies).
  — David Meyer, Fortune, 1 Mar. 2018
• At any given moment, they can be dragooned by a presidential tweet into yet another fight to protect Trump, his associates, and his business empire, from independent scrutiny.
  — Ed Kilgore, Daily Intelligencer, 2 Feb. 2018
• The experiences of Njinga’s subjects—enslaved, sacrificed, or dragooned into endless wars—remain sadly unrecoverable.
  — David Owen, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2017

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