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

"I am not sure that they will be able to besiege Kyiv," he tells me.

From BBC ● Mar. 22, 2022

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 is seized by hallucinations, haunted by sounds: the hysteria of Schumann, the morbid exaltation of Berlioz, communicate themselves to him in the music that besieges his brain.

From Figures of Several Centuries by Arthur Symons

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

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

From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026

“It is a global center of gravity that cannot be besieged, disrupted or opposed by any party.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026

More drones followed, once more plunging the residents of this besieged city into a 21st century version of the Blitz.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 24, 2026

Continually besieged by newsmen, photographers, and autograph hunters, he finally put a stop to it all: By the midpoint of the tournament he wouldn’t pose for a photo, sign his autograph, or answer any question.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

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

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

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

From Slate ● Nov. 3, 2024

On Monday residents and medics said Israeli forces were besieging hospitals and shelters for displaced people.

From BBC ● Oct. 21, 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