drag into
phrasal verb
dragged into; dragging into; drags into
: to involve (a person, group, etc.) in (a difficult or complicated situation)
I'm sorry for dragging you into this.
We will not let the country be dragged into another war.
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Hold onto your butts, this position battle could drag into the season.
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Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 24 Sep. 2025
Those who perceive this total control are prone to paranoia, leaving them mistrustful and lonely, while those who seek to profit from it are dragged into depravity.
—Kathryn Schulz, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
She’d been dragged into a ditch.
—Veronica Fulton, NBC news, 21 Sep. 2025
In what’s become its own tedious theatrical cliché, seen in both Fat Ham and Shakespeare in the Park’s Twelfth Night, Saturday Church ends with the characters transformed through drag into more fabulous versions of themselves.
—Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 19 Sep. 2025
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Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 24 Sep. 2025
Those who perceive this total control are prone to paranoia, leaving them mistrustful and lonely, while those who seek to profit from it are dragged into depravity.
—Kathryn Schulz, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
She’d been dragged into a ditch.
—Veronica Fulton, NBC news, 21 Sep. 2025
In what’s become its own tedious theatrical cliché, seen in both Fat Ham and Shakespeare in the Park’s Twelfth Night, Saturday Church ends with the characters transformed through drag into more fabulous versions of themselves.
—Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 19 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for drag into
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“Drag into.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/drag%20into. Accessed 29 Sep. 2025.
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