How to Use embroil in a Sentence

embroil

verb
  • The new drug has been embroiled in controversy.
  • His stand on this issue has embroiled him in controversy.
  • They were embroiled in a complicated lawsuit.
  • She is placed in the office of Gye Ji-ung (Choi Jin-hyuk), and embroiled in the search to find the killer of both his mother and her aunt.
    — Geoffrey Bunting, TIME, 5 Aug. 2024
  • Boo-hoo, the poor Cubs, embroiled in decades of sub-standard baseball.
    — Jr Radcliffe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 12 June 2018
  • The move comes as the couple are embroiled in several lawsuits with the U.K. press.
    — Stephanie Petit, PEOPLE.com, 8 Jan. 2020
  • The sport couldn’t afford for Ohtani to be embroiled in a gambling scandal.
    — Dylan Hernández, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2024
  • This isn’t the first time that Perry has been embroiled in a legal battle over a home.
    — Carlos De Loera, Los Angeles Times, 12 Aug. 2023
  • They have been embroiled in a contentious divorce and child custody case for the past two years.
    — Dave Altimari, courant.com, 8 Aug. 2019
  • And that land is part of a larger plot embroiled in a zoning battle brought by Frank.
    — Olivia Krauth, The Courier-Journal, 10 Mar. 2020
  • The two rappers have been embroiled in a rap beef since earlier this year.
    — Daysia Tolentino, NBC News, 5 July 2024
  • She and Fotis were embroiled in a nasty divorce and custody battle at the time.
    — Kc Baker, Peoplemag, 24 Jan. 2024
  • Syria has been embroiled in a civil war since March 2011.
    — Patrick Dehahn, Quartz, 22 June 2019
  • For the past year and a half, the family has been embroiled in a legal battle with Aledo ISD.
    — Silas Allen, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 1 Apr. 2025
  • Duma has been embroiled in a quite a few controversies in the past year.
    — Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, 18 Apr. 2019
  • While the group downed glasses of alcohol, Lim was seen embroiled in a fight with a woman at the party.
    — Time, 21 June 2023
  • There’s also the news that Tish Cyrus and her daughter, Noah, were embroiled in a lurid love triangle.
    — Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 12 June 2024
  • Bell has been embroiled in controversy over the past few years.
    — Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Since 2012, the city and the restoration group have been embroiled in a lawsuit over the city’s sale of the land where Meyer’s apartment complex is proposed.
    — Richard Webner, San Antonio Express-News, 3 July 2018
  • Mnuchin earlier urged China to rejoin talks on the dispute that has embroiled the two largest economies in a trade war.
    — Fox News, 9 June 2019
  • Mnuchin earlier urged China to rejoin talks on the dispute that has embroiled the two largest economies in a trade war.
    — Washington Post, 9 June 2019
  • For almost a year now, Drake and Kendrick Lamar have been embroiled in one of rap’s most public and memorable beefs.
    — Kyndall Cunningham, Vox, 17 Mar. 2025
  • Punk still needs to feud with Seth Rollins at some point, but he is embroiled in a feud with Bronson Reed and could be headed for a persona change.
    — Brian Mazique, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2024
  • Five cities embroiled in suits brought by Thomas More then abandoned their support for the boxes and the cases were dismissed.
    — Megan O’Matz, ProPublica, 1 Mar. 2023
  • Evans belongs in over Dave Parker, who might have been the best player in the game in the late ’70s but wasted much of his prime out of shape and embroiled in scandal.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 7 Dec. 2019
  • This wouldn’t be the first time Peloton or iFit has been embroiled in patent wars over technology.
    — Victoria Song, The Verge, 9 Mar. 2023
  • By that point, though, science had already been embroiled in its own sort of #MeToo movement for a couple years.
    — Sarah Scoles, Outside Online, 21 May 2018
  • Airlines are embroiled in a fare war, with the number of seats on transcontinental routes at an all-time high.
    — Scott McCartney, WSJ, 8 May 2019
  • The country has also been embroiled in civil war for four years sparked by a bloody and economically destructive military coup, which has seen junta forces battle rebel groups across the country.
    — Eve Brennan, CNN Money, 3 Apr. 2025
  • Further reports of damage were not immediately available from Myanmar, which is embroiled in a civil war.
    — Paul Du Quenoy, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Mar. 2025

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