besiege

He brought with him perhaps 60,000 soldiers, along with numerous cannons, some of enormous size, to besiege the city; a newly constructed fleet patrolled the Bosporus.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026

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

His misdeeds follow him to a Passover Seder, where he reads the story of the plagues that besiege the Egyptians, who have enslaved the Jewish people.

From New York Times ● Dec. 16, 2022

Adah the Poor Thing, hemiplegious egregious besiege us.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

While stifling heat besieges the nation this weekend from the desert Southwest to the Northeast, coastal Californians can’t afford to be smug.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2022

In “The Shadow of the Vulture” Suleyman the Magnificent besieges Vienna, whose two champions are the carousing ex-knight Gottfried von Kalmbach and the indomitable woman-warrior known as Red Sonya.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 9, 2021

Widowhood besieges her, and “in the siege she has lost everything.”

From New York Times ● Jun. 9, 2020

Ebola’s embers still glow in West Africa, and yellow fever besieges Angola.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 14, 2016

The command of the army that was to operate in west Hellas had been given to Reshid “Kutahia,” pasha of Iannina, an able general and a man of determined Reshid “Kutahia” besieges Missolonghi. character.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" by Various

However, fierce fighting is continuing there, as well as around the besieged government-controlled city of Taiz, and to the north in Marib and al-Jawf provinces.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

The city has already been besieged by an unusually active, El Niño-fueled hurricane season, taking damage from Hurricane Marie over Labor Day weekend and Hurricane Polo last month.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026

Others floated conspiracy theories accusing the mysterious “they” of trying to “control” Clavicular, or claiming he is besieged with “women trying to ruin his life with rumors.”

From Salon ● Sep. 25, 2026

The U.S. became involved in the dispute because at least one of the besieged homes was owned by an American citizen.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

Heat besieged the tiny room, firing the air and inside her skin.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead

The Houthis also made important gains inland, all but besieging the strategic city of Taiz, Yemen’s third-largest city, in a move that augured more Houthi advances.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2026

Louai Abu Ridi owns one of the three houses in Qusra, near Nablus, which settlers began besieging more than a week ago, trapping residents inside and effectively blocking supplies, generating condemnation around the world.

From Barron's ● Aug. 17, 2026

Meanwhile, the RSF has been besieging the capital of North Darfur, el-Fasher, which is defended by a coalition of Darfurian former rebels, known as the Joint Forces, allied with the army.

From BBC ● Jun. 16, 2025

It is a besieging of the commercial breaks of historic proportions.

From Slate ● Nov. 3, 2024

She did not have a chance to respond, because we were at her house, and she was more interested in besieging her father with questions.

From "Walk Two Moons" by Sharon Creech