Sample Sentences for
dragoon
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dragoon as in:  the dragoon charged

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He was one of the dragoons who accompanied Napoleon into Egypt.
dragoons = a member of a European military unit formerly composed of heavily armed cavalrymen
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    By the brand on my shoulder, the finest of tunes Is played by the Lancers, Hussars, and Dragoons,  (source)
    Dragoons = members of a military unit
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    You remember Dr. Bulkeley told us he used to be a captain of the dragoons in Barbados.†  (source)
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    Only once did he see a patrol of mounted dragoons.†  (source)
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    These Peace Dragoons had been sent to The Rock without a comfort detachment.†  (source)
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    Augustus drew his big dragoon Colt and jammed the barrel into Dan's stomach.†  (source)
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    He often chose to sleep away the daylight hours some distance from the den site, perhaps in order to reduce the possibility of being dragooned into the role of babysitter at too frequent intervals.†  (source)
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    How could you help regarding as an incumbrance and a discredit to you an idle dragooning chap who was an incumbrance and a discredit to himself, excepting under discipline?†  (source)
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    When the dragoons charged, the marchers at the rear first knew nothing of it.†  (source)
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    And in the Second Battle of the Masurian Lakes, he was knocked from his horse and run through with a bayonet by an Austrian dragoon.†  (source)
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    Simply put, I was dragooned.†  (source)
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    At the Middle Dutch Church they pulled out the pulpit, the pews, and the floorboards and let the horses of the Light Dragoons practice.†  (source)
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    The child with his sweet pranks, the fool of his senses, commanded by every sight and sound, without any power to compare and rank his sensations, abandoned to a whistle or a painted chip, to a lead dragoon, or a ginger-bread dog, individualizing everything, generalizing nothing, delighted with every new thing, lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue, which this day of continual petty madness has incurred.†  (source)
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    They simply did not concern her—at least until as his dragooned secretary she began to divine the depth and extent of her father's fiery enthusiasm.†  (source)
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dragoon as in:  dragoon the worker

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The manager tried to dragoon reluctant employees into working overtime without pay.
dragoon = coerce