dragoon into

phrasal verb

dragooned into; dragooning into; dragoons into

: to force or convince (someone) to do (something)

Somehow I was dragooned into working overtime.

Examples of dragoon into in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The premise has the boys, the worst soldiers imaginable, coping with being dragooned into the U.S. Army at the start of World War I. Mistakenly delivering kitchen trash to a general’s living room is only the start of their woes. —Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times, 3 Apr. 2024

But the women artists in the museum’s collection dragooned into this minor prank, and the generations of women and feminist art historians — Rosalind Krauss, Anne Wagner, Mary Ann Caws, hundreds more — who have devoted their careers to thinking seriously about modern art and gender. —Jason Farago, New York Times, 1 June 2023