How to Use besiege in a Sentence

besiege

verb
Definition of besiegenext
Synonyms for besiegenext
  • Customers have besieged the company with questions.
  • Kamal Adwan was besieged and raided by Israeli forces a year ago.
    — Wafaa Shurafa and Bassem Mroue, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2024
  • But now, the Baraks’ home is less bestilled than besieged.
    — Patrick Kingsley, New York Times, 5 May 2023
  • Hetfield said from a small stage besieged by the crowd on the field.
    — Dylan Owens, The Know, 8 June 2017
  • But Arnold reached Quebec with enough men to besiege the city.
    — William Anthony Hay, WSJ, 24 May 2018
  • Soup kitchens and food banks across the country are besieged by the hungry.
    — Michael Greenberg, The New York Review of Books, 16 Apr. 2020
  • The army marched to Mount Algidus and used the stakes to besiege the Aequi, who surrendered.
    — Jeff Suess, The Enquirer, 6 Sep. 2022
  • The last aid convoy came in February and the camp is besieged on all sides.
    — Josh Rogin, The Denver Post, 24 July 2019
  • But the retreat is anything but peaceful, as the place is soon besieged by a plague of mice.
    — Sophia Nguyen, Washington Post, 30 July 2024
  • Angry crowds and farmers on tractors besieged the Fed; the keys to cars that dealers could not sell were sent to him in the mail.
    — The Economist, 12 Dec. 2019
  • Yet the beast was besieged, covered by hundreds of feasting ticks of all life-stages.
    — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 8 Aug. 2018
  • The French champions will have to rely on the strength of their squad depth as they are besieged by absences.
    — SI.com, 26 Aug. 2019
  • Experts say Russia may try to besiege Ukrainian forces by linking its troops in the north and the south.
    — Washington Post, 15 Apr. 2022
  • Over the years, the story of the little blond French girl besieged by lions became something of a legend in the area.
    — Alice Gregory, The New Yorker, 19 May 2018
  • After one bloody skirmish, the surgeon Ambroise Paré had to dress the wounds of the soldiers who had been shot by the hackbuts of the besieged.
    — John J. Ross, WSJ, 6 Mar. 2020
  • The Warriors, besieged by injuries, lost to the Toronto Raptors in the Finals.
    — Arash Markazi, latimes.com, 3 July 2019
  • In the 1980s, the statue was moved to a new location: a Tudor mansion that Cromwell had besieged in the civil war.
    — Andrew Sullivan, Daily Intelligencer, 8 Sep. 2017
  • Valve’s seemed a bit besieged the last few months, and even more so after the announcement of the Epic Games Store earlier this week.
    — Hayden Dingman, PCWorld, 6 Dec. 2018
  • One White House official said Jackson is growing weary of a process that has been besieged from the start.
    — The Washington Post, OregonLive.com, 25 Apr. 2018
  • One Sunday card was besieged by rain with everything off the turf.
    — John Cherwa, latimes.com, 19 Oct. 2017
  • The Ravens have been besieged by interview requests for their young star to a degree unmatched since the prime days of Lewis.
    — Childs Walker, baltimoresun.com, 15 Nov. 2019
  • Hospitals in Wuhan are besieged by the sick, and only a handful of clinics are able to test for the disease.
    — Time, 30 Jan. 2020
  • This makes sense since he would likely be besieged by lawsuits if the surplus were given to him.
    — Adrianne Jeffries, The Verge, 22 Mar. 2018
  • The fighting reached a climax when the British and their allies besieged a Pequot fort and set it aflame, hunting down those who fled.
    — Daniel Immerwahr, Harper's Magazine, 11 Oct. 2022
  • From the start, her neat, poppy melody is besieged by distortion.
    — Jon Pareles, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2020
  • The film also shows how besieged the couple was by the paparazzi, at a turning point in celebrity culture.
    — Caryn James, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 May 2024
  • The episode has inflamed a major health system that has been besieged by the coronavirus.
    — New York Times, 2 Apr. 2020
  • Police have been besieged and outnumbered to combat the armed gangs.
    — CBS News, 16 Mar. 2024
  • There is a lot more to besieging a walled fortress than simply running around with ladders.
    — William Gurstelle, Popular Mechanics, 11 Apr. 2019
  • And what is the Trump campaign producing if not fantastical propaganda intended to conjure a false image of Joe Biden’s America as a dark, dangerous place on the verge of destruction, besieged by immigrants, and savable only by one heroic man?
    — Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 21 Oct. 2024

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