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

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

At any rate, old Mr. Hardcastle talks a great deal about that famous beleaguerment in the witty and diverting farce of She Stoops to Conquer.

From The Passionate Elopement by MacKenzie, Compton

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