besieged

Example Sentences

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The besieged enclave has neither water nor electricity.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 22, 2026

Abdul Karim Omar, representative of the Kurds' autonomous administration in Damascus, told AFP Aleppo's Kurdish-majority neighbourhoods were "completely besieged".

From Barron's • Jan. 7, 2026

Steven Skybell, magnificent in the role of the besieged patriarch, led a superb cast that brought a new understanding to an old chestnut through the force of Yiddish language and culture.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 9, 2025

"We were besieged inside our house and couldn't leave," she recalls, describing how power, water and internet connections were all severed.

From BBC • Nov. 21, 2025

Even as it besieged Boston, the virus also spread down the eastern seaboard, laying waste as far as Georgia.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann