How to Use imbroglio in a Sentence

imbroglio

noun
  • But such a move may only put off an imbroglio for a few weeks.
    — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 4 Sep. 2017
  • Diplomacy is the only way out of this imbroglio.
    — Asher Kaufman, The Conversation, 1 June 2026
  • 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
  • But the whereabouts imbroglio has meant that Coleman has been equally busy off the track.
    — Amanda Davies and James Masters, CNN, 26 Sep. 2019
  • They had been brought in to bring calm to the corporation in the wake of the accounting imbroglio.
    — NBC News, 24 Sep. 2019
  • Uber has been trying to clean up its image following a year of scandals and legal imbroglios.
    — Greg Bensinger, WSJ, 16 Oct. 2018
  • In fact, the whole imbroglio can be traced back to congressional inaction.
    — Burgess Everett, semafor.com, 9 Dec. 2025
  • 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
  • The overtime imbroglio was the latest in a litany of embarrassments for the agency.
    — Mark Arsenault, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Mar. 2018
  • In our view the facts of the Ukraine imbroglio don’t qualify as impeachable on either grounds.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 15 Jan. 2020
  • 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
  • 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
  • The Ime Udoka imbroglio was sudden, sad, and jolting for the franchise.
    — Christopher L. Gasper, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Oct. 2022
  • 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
  • Netanyahu’s recent indictment on corruption charges has added a murky legal imbroglio to the saga.
    — Washington Post, 11 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
  • 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
  • Then, he was named CBS’ interim chairman in the wake of the Moonves imbroglio.
    — Stephen Galloway, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Dec. 2024
  • The dozens of lawsuits that followed had been entangled in legal imbroglios about how to interpret the untested law.
    — Nora Gamez Torres, Miami Herald, 8 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • The entire imbroglio spawned countless memes and mockery and put a national spotlight, for a few days, on the former colleagues.
    — Adam Carlson, PEOPLE, 8 Sep. 2025
  • The Honduran imbroglio was a harbinger of further frictions with Brazil.
    — Michael Reid, Foreign Affairs, 1 Sep. 2015
  • At the center of the imbroglio was the former teammate duo of Chris Paul and Blake Griffin.
    — Greg Rajan, Houston Chronicle, 16 Jan. 2018
  • The Mendez family hadn’t paid much attention to the renaming imbroglio.
    — Debbie Truong, Washington Post, 22 Oct. 2017
  • 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
  • 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
  • Bridgewater demurred, saying he was too wrapped up in Raider Week to pay much attention to the Raiders’ imbroglio.
    — Mark Heim | [email protected], al, 17 Oct. 2021
  • 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
  • In a normally functioning White House, the buck of that whole imbroglio should’ve stopped with McGahn.
    — Cristian Farias, Daily Intelligencer, 22 Feb. 2018
  • The imbroglio eventually ended with an accord between the district and the federal government to halt the use of the mascot.
    — Troy Closson, New York Times, 30 May 2025

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