How to Use harry in a Sentence

harry

verb
Definition of harrynext
Synonyms for harrynext
  • The middle daughter harried me with it every day, all the way back to the Cities.
    — Bulletin Board, Twin Cities, 13 Oct. 2019
  • Before that pass, the 49ers harried Mahomes as few teams have.
    — Kevin Draper, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2020
  • He was relieved when Fatima called her father to come pick them up, as the sun sank in the sky and the wind harried the trees on the seafront.
    — Sarah Dadouch, Washington Post, 5 Oct. 2023
  • He was dogged in his defending of Farrell, harrying him around the court.
    — Jeff Greer, The Courier-Journal, 16 Jan. 2018
  • Not for one second though did Mr. Faye give the impression of being harried.
    — New York Times, 29 May 2018
  • The government chased and harried the Cheyenne, Arapaho, Lakota, and other tribes and burned their food and lodges.
    — David Treuer, Harper's magazine, 10 Jan. 2019
  • This is supposed to be the age of the universal player, in which even goalscorers press and tackle and hassle and harry.
    — Jonathan Wilson, SI.com, 3 June 2017
  • The slam dance had continued, its pace only more harried.
    — Kevin Lozano, The New Yorker, 1 Nov. 2023
  • The Titans’ Ryan Tannehill was harried more often, but passed better than Rivers on this day.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Oct. 2019
  • His voice was deep if slightly harried, and his face impassive.
    — The Economist, 11 Oct. 2019
  • Doctors and nurses stepped over legs and bodies, the nurses harried and short-tempered.
    — Lynn Freed, Harper's magazine, 10 Mar. 2019
  • Teams which are not particularly easy on the eye, but sides that get the job done; a group of players who hustle, harry, work hard and dig in.
    — SI.com, 14 Mar. 2018
  • Josh Rosen was sacked four times in Miami’s first 11 plays and often harried after that.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Oct. 2019
  • The days of Egidio Arevalo Rio scuttling around midfield harrying anything that moved have gone.
    — Jonathan Wilson, SI.com, 5 July 2018
  • Mehsud’s fellow Pushtuns, who say the police have been harrying them for years, held protest marches.
    — The Economist, 8 Mar. 2018
  • Indiana pounded the paint early, bossed Michigan State on the boards and harried every screen.
    — Zach Osterman, Indianapolis Star, 24 Jan. 2020
  • With 12 seconds on the shot clock and no other defender besides Allen to harry him, Bryant used up six seconds fighting Allen to the left corner of the free throw line.
    — Kyle Stack, WIRED, 15 Feb. 2012
  • The players worked tirelessly to harry Leicester and limit their chances.
    — SI.com, 5 Oct. 2019
  • The trailer was a lot of Morris Chestnut being stern and Carpenter being harried.
    — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 May 2018
  • Carmy, Sydney, and the gang are still justifiably harried throughout.
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 19 June 2023
  • Ramey built his reputation as a pass-first point guard with dizzying speed and quickness that helps him harry opposing guards on the defensive end.
    — Jeff Greer, The Courier-Journal, 15 July 2017
  • Haiti, which ranks fifty-third and is playing in its first World Cup, pushed, harried, and unnerved England, the European champion, before falling, 1–0.
    — Naaman Zhou, The New Yorker, 28 July 2023
  • The foe or its allies could harry the expeditionary force, taking up station at key geographic sites - the Strait of Malacca, anyone? - to snipe away.
    — chicagotribune.com, 7 Aug. 2017
  • Chelsea had chivied and harried and unnerved Real Madrid, the reigning European champion.
    — Rory Smith, New York Times, 18 Apr. 2023
  • But if this urgent, quietly angry doc feels both hurried and harried at certain points, that just speaks to the moment: Time is not a luxury anyone has in this business.
    — Guy Lodge, Variety, 16 Feb. 2023
  • Rebel groups had continued to harry government forces, however, from outside the city with mortar rounds.
    — Sarah El Deeb, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Feb. 2020
  • The iniquity of what was done to Seberg, harrying her into a breakdown, is beyond dispute; but there’s a problem with Andrews’s movie.
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 6 Dec. 2019
  • Salzburg deserve immense praise for their efforts in the match, harrying the home side without fear, but one player who did stand tall for Liverpool throughout the 90 minutes was Roberto Firmino.
    — SI.com, 2 Oct. 2019
  • The fighters had divided into teams to target strategic points within the prison, while others were sent to harry a nearby battalion of Kurdish fighters and block off routes to the complex.
    — NBC News, 24 Jan. 2022
  • For almost the entire game the Americans had harried China with their version of a full-court press--the 100 defense--which prevented the Chinese midfielders from giving quick support to their forwards.
    — Grant Wahl, SI.com, 2 July 2015

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