How to Use embroil in a Sentence

embroil

verb

• The new drug has been embroiled in controversy.
• His stand on this issue has embroiled him in controversy.
• They were embroiled in a complicated lawsuit.
• Since then, the agency has been embroiled in chaos and staffing cuts.
  — Andrew Freedman, CNN Money, 22 May 2025
• The charges are not the first time Molzan has been embroiled in a legal scandal.
  — Robert Downen, Houston Chronicle, 7 Apr. 2018
• In 1944, it was embroiled in one of the most exhausting battles of the war.
  — Dawn Mitchell, Indianapolis Star, 27 Feb. 2018
• They are also embroiled in an FBI scandal that has been the No.
  — Lindsay Schnell, USA TODAY, 16 Mar. 2018
• She is placed in the office of Gye Ji-ung (Choi Jin-hyuk), and embroiled in the search to find the killer of both his mother and her aunt.
  — Geoffrey Bunting, TIME, 5 Aug. 2024
• Boo-hoo, the poor Cubs, embroiled in decades of sub-standard baseball.
  — Jr Radcliffe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 12 June 2018
• The move comes as the couple are embroiled in several lawsuits with the U.K. press.
  — Stephanie Petit, PEOPLE.com, 8 Jan. 2020
• The sport couldn’t afford for Ohtani to be embroiled in a gambling scandal.
  — Dylan Hernández, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2024
• This isn’t the first time that Perry has been embroiled in a legal battle over a home.
  — Carlos De Loera, Los Angeles Times, 12 Aug. 2023
• By the end of the play, the plot is embroiled in a domestic nightmare involving a gun.
  — David Lyman, Cincinnati.com, 12 Apr. 2018
• They have been embroiled in a contentious divorce and child custody case for the past two years.
  — Dave Altimari, courant.com, 8 Aug. 2019
• And that land is part of a larger plot embroiled in a zoning battle brought by Frank.
  — Olivia Krauth, The Courier-Journal, 10 Mar. 2020
• The two rappers have been embroiled in a rap beef since earlier this year.
  — Daysia Tolentino, NBC News, 5 July 2024
• She and Fotis were embroiled in a nasty divorce and custody battle at the time.
  — Kc Baker, Peoplemag, 24 Jan. 2024
• Syria has been embroiled in a civil war since March 2011.
  — Patrick Dehahn, Quartz, 22 June 2019
• For the past year and a half, the family has been embroiled in a legal battle with Aledo ISD.
  — Silas Allen, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 1 Apr. 2025
• Duma has been embroiled in a quite a few controversies in the past year.
  — Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, 18 Apr. 2019
• Durov, who was born in Russia, is embroiled in a legal battle in France.
  — David Ingram, NBC news, 20 May 2025
• While the group downed glasses of alcohol, Lim was seen embroiled in a fight with a woman at the party.
  — Time, 21 June 2023
• There’s also the news that Tish Cyrus and her daughter, Noah, were embroiled in a lurid love triangle.
  — Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 12 June 2024
• Bell has been embroiled in controversy over the past few years.
  — Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 13 Apr. 2023
• Since 2012, the city and the restoration group have been embroiled in a lawsuit over the city’s sale of the land where Meyer’s apartment complex is proposed.
  — Richard Webner, San Antonio Express-News, 3 July 2018
• Trump has been embroiled in the fallout from Daniels’ interview.
  — Skyler Swisher, Sun-Sentinel.com, 13 Apr. 2018
• Mnuchin earlier urged China to rejoin talks on the dispute that has embroiled the two largest economies in a trade war.
  — Fox News, 9 June 2019
• Mnuchin earlier urged China to rejoin talks on the dispute that has embroiled the two largest economies in a trade war.
  — Washington Post, 9 June 2019
• The Olympic gold medalist and Gaines, a former collegiate swimmer, have been embroiled in a back-and-forth regarding transgender rights in sports.
  — Anna Lazarus Caplan, People.com, 24 June 2025
• Ben Sulayem has become embroiled in a number of controversies during a tenure marked by a series of high-profile departures of senior personnel.
  — Madeline Coleman, New York Times, 5 July 2025