besiege

He brought with him perhaps 60,000 soldiers, along with numerous cannons, some of enormous size, to besiege the city; a newly constructed fleet patrolled the Bosporus.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026

One scene that stuck with me: As Union troops besiege Atlanta, shells are exploding, people flee in panic.

From Salon ● Mar. 29, 2025

The feeling of being in a great city as raging infernos besiege it but don’t quite subsume it?

From Slate ● Jan. 9, 2025

"If they besiege us here, where can we go then? How long will this suffering continue? We have been displaced about six or seven times," he said.

From BBC ● Dec. 30, 2024

Many had feared Farmer would be criticized for going to costly extremes to save one particular life, and that parents would besiege Zanmi Lasante with demands that their sick children be flown to Boston.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French

While stifling heat besieges the nation this weekend from the desert Southwest to the Northeast, coastal Californians can’t afford to be smug.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2022

In “The Shadow of the Vulture” Suleyman the Magnificent besieges Vienna, whose two champions are the carousing ex-knight Gottfried von Kalmbach and the indomitable woman-warrior known as Red Sonya.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 9, 2021

Widowhood besieges her, and “in the siege she has lost everything.”

From New York Times ● Jun. 9, 2020

Ebola’s embers still glow in West Africa, and yellow fever besieges Angola.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 14, 2016

Ricimer besieges and storms Rome; death of Ricimer and of Anthemius; Olybrius and Glycerius are emperors successively.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 04 by Charles F. (Charles Francis) Horne

He describes how leaving felt like a movie where someone boards the last helicopter flight out of a besieged city.

From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026

This is a film packed with conversation yet light on longueurs, for the director and his cast invest the dense historical speech with an alertness befitting a besieged community.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026

A besieged single woman raising her 8-year-old son in Harlem, N.Y., stands at the heart of Ann Petry’s “The Street,” the first novel by an African-American woman to sell more than a million copies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026

More drones followed, once more plunging the residents of this besieged city into a 21st century version of the Blitz.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 24, 2026

So besieged was Bobby by the media that for a while Marshall had to have a bodyguard stationed in front of his palatial home to keep the press hordes at bay.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

Louai Abu Ridi owns one of the three houses in Qusra, near Nablus, which settlers began besieging more than a week ago, trapping residents inside and effectively blocking supplies, generating condemnation around the world.

From Barron's ● Aug. 17, 2026

This week’s ruling is the latest development in the long-running legal saga, which launched in the wake of resident complaints that the autonomous vehicle company’s round-the-clock operation was besieging them with noise, light and traffic.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026

Meanwhile, the RSF has been besieging the capital of North Darfur, el-Fasher, which is defended by a coalition of Darfurian former rebels, known as the Joint Forces, allied with the army.

From BBC ● Jun. 16, 2025

It is a besieging of the commercial breaks of historic proportions.

From Slate ● Nov. 3, 2024

She did not have a chance to respond, because we were at her house, and she was more interested in besieging her father with questions.

From "Walk Two Moons" by Sharon Creech