hounded

Example Sentences

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For performing this service, Amamiya was hounded off the Internet.

From Salon • Mar. 1, 2026

Stokes, whose side has been hounded by the media in Australia and come under enormous pressure back home, added that there was no room for complacency and it had been made clear to the players.

From Barron's • Jan. 3, 2026

The controversy around Ms Dzafce is a postscript to a chaotic Miss Universe pageant hosted in Thailand that had been hounded by walkouts and allegations of rigging.

From BBC • Dec. 16, 2025

She was trapped in a country not her own and hounded by police who were suspicious of her loyalty because she refused to renounce her American citizenship.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 21, 2025

I let a minute or two pass so that she wouldn’t feel hounded, then went and sat next to her.

From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs