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

An Iowa business group is pushing back on Alliant Energy's plan to invest in additional power plants, saying everyday customers could get saddled with billions in costs for generating capacity intended mainly to serve data centers in Iowa. — Donnelle Eller, Des Moines Register, 11 Sep. 2026

Romello Height and Grayson Halton, rookies who’ve been saddled with ankle injuries, were among 10 defensive linemen participating. — Cam Inman, Mercury News, 7 Sep. 2026

Years later, Nelson is married to Linda (pity poor Tatyana Ali, saddled with an almost comically underwritten, saintly-supportive-partner role) and is raising her son as his own. — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 5 Sep. 2026

The cockroaches were saddled with lightweight electronics that included electrodes implanted into both their antennae and small tail-like appendages known as cerci. — IEEE Spectrum, 5 Sep. 2026