besiege

Example Sentences

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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

But it has stopped the Russians from moving on to besiege the larger cities of Kramatorsk and Sloviansk.

From New York Times • May 17, 2023

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