saddle with

verb

saddled with; saddling with; saddles with

: to cause (someone or something) to have (a problem, burden, responsibility, etc.)

His actions have saddled the company with too much debt.

My boss saddled me with the task of organizing the conference.

—often used as (be) saddled with

The company is saddled with an enormous amount of debt.

She is saddled with a reputation for not being dependable.

Examples of saddle with in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Multitasking, collage, and fragmentation have long served as survival strategies for women saddled with domestic duties and harboring artistic ambitions. — Leslie Camhi, New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2026

These young Indians are not saddled with the historical baggage of ties to conventional opposition parties. — Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Foreign Affairs, 15 Oct. 2026

The new company is saddled with nearly $80 billion in debt and has pledged to whittle it down along with delivering $6 billion in cost savings. — Dade Hayes, Deadline, 13 Oct. 2026

Though the Scandi brand was selling at a brisk pace to her online customers, Stover knew the economics weren’t going to work for the long term if every reorder was saddled with that kind of extra cost. — Jessica Binns, Vogue, 12 Oct. 2026