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involve someone in a conflict — such as a controversy or a problem

Please don't embroil me in this kind of office politics.

Iran is trying to embroil the United States in the controversy.
If I were going to remain here, I might think it worth my while to embroil myself.
Charles Dickens -- The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
And if you get embroiled in it and you're seen to be helping a man kill himself, then you could end up in all sorts of trouble."
Jojo Moyes -- Me Before You
We shall see...... It seems, Eragon, that we are embroiled in a new type of warfare here.
Christopher Paolini -- Eragon
As a result of his embroilment in the petition campaign, he was expelled from the university.
Milan Kundera -- The Unbearable Lightness of Being
His leadership qualities stayed with him as he participated in San Gabriel High School's MASO club at the same time I was embroiled in ToHMAS.
Luis J. Rodriguez -- Always Running
Why should we be quick to embroil ourselves as adversaries of the other, being far more powerful than they are?
Homer -- The Iliad
I particularly feared he would get embroiled in a religious discussion, bring in my Roman Catholicism in a way that could embarrass the Church.
John Howard Griffin -- Black Like Me
I'd sworn to the gods from the king's prison that I wasn't going to embroil myself in any more stupid plans.
Megan Whalen Turner -- The Thief
But beyond them both lay the clouded area, the Great Unrest where all the universe seemed embroiled.
Frank Herbert -- Dune
For a moment Clary struggled, embroiled in a sea of perfumed flesh, swaths of velvet, and the tasseled ends of Dorothea's shawl.
Cassandra Clare -- City of Bones
They stretched out their hooks toward the belimed ones, who were already baked within the crust: and we left them thus embroiled.
Dante Alighieri -- Dante's Inferno
As for being "over a barrel"—if anyone gave off the aroma of being embroiled in some sort of ongoing and ill-defined trouble, it was Platt.
Donna Tartt -- The Goldfinch
However, I got so embroiled in some messy proceedings relating to a large estate that her birthday arrived before I could make the arrangements.
Nicholas Sparks -- The Wedding
Magicians are vulnerable to physical attack when they are embroiled in their mental struggles.
Christopher Paolini -- Eldest
The O.J. Simpson acquittal was yesterday afternoon, and the university is embroiled in racial discussion, though not between the races.
Ron Suskind -- A Hope in the Unseen
The only thing worthwhile about practice was that I got to see Rina, who was currently embroiled in one of her trademark mucky love triangles.
Sarah Dessen -- Dreamland
Piggy, finding himself uncomfortably embroiled, slid the conch to Ralph's knees and sat down.
William Golding -- Lord of the Flies
The threat of embroilment in the European war continued, America at the "precipice," as Adams said, and still there was no word from John Jay in London.
David McCullough -- John Adams

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