How to Use imbroglio in a Sentence

imbroglio

noun

• One lesson of the GameStop imbroglio is that those who live by the sword die by the sword.
  — Bruce Bartlett, The New Republic, 4 Feb. 2021
• In the Texas imbroglio, his plan is to create a new habitat.
  — Christopher M. Matthews, WSJ, 13 Oct. 2017
• The testing imbroglio would set the country back for months.
  — Lawrence Wright, The New Yorker, 28 Dec. 2020
• But such a move may only put off an imbroglio for a few weeks.
  — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 4 Sep. 2017
• At the center of the imbroglio was the former teammate duo of Chris Paul and Blake Griffin.
  — Greg Rajan, Houston Chronicle, 16 Jan. 2018
• They had been brought in to bring calm to the corporation in the wake of the accounting imbroglio.
  — NBC News, 24 Sep. 2019
• But the whereabouts imbroglio has meant that Coleman has been equally busy off the track.
  — Amanda Davies and James Masters, CNN, 26 Sep. 2019
• Twitter and cable news keep a lot of D.C. chasing the hourly imbroglio of error and gaffe.
  — Philip Elliott, Time, 10 Nov. 2022
• The Ime Udoka imbroglio was sudden, sad, and jolting for the franchise.
  — Christopher L. Gasper, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Oct. 2022
• Plus, now the Udoka imbroglio can finally be put to bed.
  — Christopher L. Gasper, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Feb. 2023
• But a more lethal imbroglio occurred on the M4 highway to Moscow as the Wagner column approached the city of Voronezh in the oblast of the same name.
  — Sébastien Roblin, Popular Mechanics, 27 June 2023
• The overtime imbroglio was the latest in a litany of embarrassments for the agency.
  — Mark Arsenault, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Mar. 2018
• And while the imbroglio has yet to reach a Watergate-like roar, talk of impeachment has reached a steady murmur.
  — Gregory Korte, USA TODAY, 22 May 2017
• As many books have recounted, Bush’s dismissal of expert opinion was at the core of the Iraq imbroglio.
  — Bruce Bartlett, The New Republic, 23 Nov. 2020
• One factor in the flurry of activity is a sense of detente now that there is a pause in the imbroglio over health care.
  — Washington Post, 2 Aug. 2017
• In our view the facts of the Ukraine imbroglio don’t qualify as impeachable on either grounds.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 15 Jan. 2020
• But the imbroglio quickly spread to a variety of complaints.
  — Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2022
• This story is about the public imbroglio that followed...
  — Todd A. Price, NOLA.com, 27 July 2017
• With a touch of irony, that affair has direct ties to our current imbroglio, through none other than James Comey.
  — Harry Jaffe, Town & Country, 16 May 2017
• In a normally functioning White House, the buck of that whole imbroglio should’ve stopped with McGahn.
  — Cristian Farias, Daily Intelligencer, 22 Feb. 2018
• And Ronald Reagan’s library makes no mention of trading arms for hostages in the Iran-contra imbroglio.
  — James Hohmann, Washington Post, 15 June 2018
• As with the projection of the Mueller case, Trump’s domestic foes in the Ukraine imbroglio were accusing Trump of what they themselves had done.
  — Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, 8 Oct. 2019
• In past decades, European leaders might have agreed on enough to find a way out of these various imbroglios.
  — Matthias Matthijs, Foreign Affairs, 13 Apr. 2020
• Now, however, the 56-year-old Biegun may be thrust on to the world stage – and into the domestic imbroglio over impeachment.
  — Deirdre Shesgreen, USA TODAY, 20 Dec. 2019
• Sara Netanyahu is not the first Israeli prime minister’s wife to face a legal imbroglio.
  — Noga Tarnopolsky, latimes.com, 21 June 2018
• In 1988, she was involved in an imbroglio at a society gala on the dance floor of the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco.
  — Jacob Bernstein, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2023
• Bridgewater demurred, saying he was too wrapped up in Raider Week to pay much attention to the Raiders’ imbroglio.
  — Mark Heim | [e-mail], al, 17 Oct. 2021
• But the basic story is laid out, starkly, in court papers from the lawsuit and countersuit that followed the imbroglio.
  — Indrani Sen, Fortune, 30 Jan. 2024
• Uber has been trying to clean up its image following a year of scandals and legal imbroglios.
  — Greg Bensinger, WSJ, 16 Oct. 2018
• The imbroglio, which necessitated reshooting the film, ballooned the budget, with more woe coming when the movie crash landed at the box office.
  — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 June 2024

Last Updated: 27 Dec 2024