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Example sentences for "dragooned"

Lexicographically close words:
dragonflies; dragonfly; dragonnades; dragons; dragoon; dragoons; drags; drain; drainage; drainages
  1. Metz, now part of German Lorraine, was probably not so ferociously dragooned as other places.

  2. He could not be dragooned into denying his faith, and he was therefore imprisoned, preparatory to his expulsion from France.

  3. The Federalist party, however, always maintained that Mr. Madison was dragooned into the war by a committee of Congress.

  4. A woman dragooned into marrying me," Jack explained, with a jovial grin; "one that was thinking all the time how much happier she would be with somebody else.

  5. I knew you didn't want to have me, and I'd no notion of being tied to a dragooned wife.

  6. He dreaded their operation; it seemed only too possible that Don Joaquin would be led to interference by them, and such interference he feared extremely; nor could he endure the idea of Mariquita's being dragooned by her father.

  7. When you are all dragooned and drilled an ass comes off as well as anyone else.

  8. Can't you conceive of such a thing as a young woman's turning down the man she really cares for, and then letting herself be dragooned into marrying somebody else?

  9. When Macnaghten found that the rulers of Herat were not to be dragooned into propriety, he declared that there was nothing left for us now but to bribe them.

  10. This was notably the case in Tennessee, Virginia, North Carolina and Georgia, where the majority repeatedly expressed itself in favor of the Union, but was dragooned into Secession.

  11. She cannot be frightened from her propriety by the past unfriendly legislation of the North, nor be dragooned into secession by the extreme South.


  12. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dragooned" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.