besiege

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

That decision to besiege rather than directly attack the giant Azovstal plant means that “many Russian units remain fixed in the city and cannot be redeployed,” the British assessment said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 25, 2022

Ned would surely have prevailed upon Robert to bring up his whole force, to encircle Stannis and besiege the besiegers.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

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

Your friend, the bold unfearing chap, Aims at a professorial cap, And now besieges, do and dare, The Edinburgh History chair.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 23 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis

After word spread that a local attorney was starting a class action, residents said they were besieged by out-of-town lawyers competing aggressively for their business.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 12, 2026

The Spanish and French besieged British Gibraltar, and the Dutch were pulled into the war against Britain as well.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 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

So-called jamming has been commonplace along the Russia-Ukraine border over recent years, and now the Strait of Hormuz, through which 20% of the world’s oil is transported, is besieged by such electronic attacks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 18, 2026

So now at last the City was besieged, enclosed in a ring of foes.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien

Noting that the pamphlet “is working a powerful change in the minds of many men,” George Washington had it read aloud to the troops besieging Boston.

From Salon ● Jan. 10, 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

Since he doesn’t know anything about infantry tactics, he shows them how to use English cannons instead, arguing that a naval bombardment can breach walls faster than any besieging army can.

From New York Times ● Mar. 12, 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