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

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

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

He attacks it, he besieges it; it yields, it defends itself; at one time strong, at one time weak, at another triumphant.

From The Cid by Corneille, Pierre

He describes how leaving felt like a movie where someone boards the last helicopter flight out of a besieged city.

From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026

When we parked up, I recall Wembley being besieged by ticket touts who were looking to sell.

From BBC ● Jul. 29, 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

In recent months, many residents have returned home to the island, besieged from June 2023 until March 2025, when the army recaptured the capital.

From Barron's ● Apr. 22, 2026

"I have twenty thousand men. You are besieged by land and sea. Why would I choose single combat when my eventual victory is certain?"

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

This week’s ruling is the latest development in the long-running legal saga, which launched in the wake of resident complaints that the autonomous vehicle company’s round-the-clock operation was besieging them with noise, light and traffic.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026

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

Because of this, he began to seek out new allies and to vacillate with France during the campaign the French undertook in the Kingdom of Naples against the Spaniards besieging Gaeta.

From "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli