beleaguerment

Example Sentences

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He needs to drop out before he reaches medically dangerous levels of beleaguerment.

From Slate • Nov. 16, 2021

The U.N. action served only to increase Israel's sense of isolation and beleaguerment.

From Time Magazine Archive

Many experts agree that man for man and dollar for dollar, the Israelis have the best intelligence service in the world—possibly because of their sense of community and beleaguerment.

From Time Magazine Archive

Spain, suffering, as it suffers to-day, from intellectual dry rot, had known for weeks of the intended beleaguerment.

From Our War with Spain for Cuba's Freedom by White, Trumbull

But, as the Americans had neither the men nor the material for a regular siege, they were obliged to confine themselves to a mere beleaguerment, with the chance of taking Quebec by assault.

From The Father of British Canada: a Chronicle of Carleton by Wood, William Charles Henry