besieged
Example Sentences
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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
Many who worship at the mosque have immigrated to America from Gaza and other places besieged by violence.
From Los Angeles Times • May 21, 2026
Even if the regime doesn’t fall, it will be leaderless, impoverished, isolated, besieged, mostly disarmed.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 2, 2026
Even if the regime doesn’t fall, it will be leaderless, impoverished, isolated, besieged, mostly disarmed.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 2, 2026
But when supplies ran low and deadly epidemics of yellow fever, cholera, and typhus swept through the besieged town, some of the sick, starving refugees were forced out.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
