How to Use dragoon in a Sentence

dragoon

verb
  • Many Syrians flinch at the idea of going back, fearful that they will be killed, forced into camps or dragooned into the army.
    — The Economist, 30 June 2018
  • Now Dracaena fragrans, aka the corn plant, and spider plants are being dragooned into doing the job.
    — Joe Queenan, WSJ, 26 July 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
  • 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 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
  • 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
  • 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

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