5 sentences with 'embroiled'
Example sentences and phrases with the word embroiled and other words derived from it.
• « Egypt became embroiled in a long period of civil war and conflict, and from that time onwards Egypt proved vulnerable to foreign conquest. »
• « The Guise family was advised by the Jesuits and supported by the King of Spain, while the second Bourbon family represented the growing number of economically dynamic Huguenots concentrated in the south (they were especially numerous in Navarre, a small independent kingdom between France and Spain that soon became embroiled in war). »
• « Even as Spain became embroiled in an ongoing and costly conflict in the Netherlands, hostility developed between Spain and England. »
• « The British sent a small but effective expeditionary force under the Duke of Wellington to support the insurrection, and Napoleon found himself embroiled in guerrilla warfare - the term 'guerrilla', meaning 'small war', was invented by the Spanish during the conflict. »
• « In addition to dealing with rancour over turnover in office, the Jackson administration became embroiled in a personal scandal known as the petticoat affair. »