siege

Although a tense urban peace has taken hold since then, many residents of Paris, Toulouse, Marseille and other cities beset by riots still feel under siege, much like Los Angeles after the 1992 riots.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

England needed to repel another French siege, before overpowering at the other end for Litten - who impressed as an interchange - to score.

From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026

During the 1710 siege of Tallinn, for example, the disease killed Swedish and Russian soldiers as well as civilians.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026

One of the fiercest battles between the KMT and Japan, little-known to Westerners or Chinese for the past 80 years, was the 47-day siege of Hengyang, in southern China.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

When my father came home in the evenings now, the first thing he did was to announce how long the siege had been going on.

From "Homesick" by Jean Fritz

Similar sieges unfolded across Syria—in Duma, Zabadani, and beyond.

From Slate ● Nov. 19, 2025

This frequently happens in sieges, such as Germany's encirclement of Leningrad during World War II.

From Salon ● Apr. 30, 2024

The tactics to enforce the sieges have also limited residents’ access to health and education, forcing one in 12 people across the country to flee their homes, the organization said.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 2, 2023

The UN human rights chief has said sieges are illegal under international law.

From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2023

The beat knights had gone to perfection, leaving the wont to hold their sieges.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

On February 28, 1993, law enforcement sieged Mount Carmel Center ranch, the compound that belonged to Koresh and his religious cult.

From Salon ● Mar. 24, 2023

And a subsequent screening he met several audience members who said they were from Mariupol and that their relatives were escaping the sieged city at the same time he was.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 23, 2023

“There is quite a lot of people still remaining in the absolutely sieged city of Mariupol in some inhumane conditions,” he said during a video briefing.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 4, 2022

Over these past weekends, many of my friends have attended medical first aid courses, survival courses on how to survive in an occupied or sieged city.

From Slate ● Feb. 18, 2022

Brandenburg saw its towns sieged and sacked, its country populations driven to despair, by the one party and the other.

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 03 by Thomas Carlyle

It has also levied some sanctions on those doing the sieging.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 24, 2022

As it is, the Austrian Army is not annihilated; only bottled into Prag, and will need sieging.

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 18 by Thomas Carlyle

The War, since Friedrich got out of it, does not abate in animosity, nor want for bloodshed, battle and sieging; but offers little now memorable.

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 16 by Thomas Carlyle

His worst war was with Pommern,—just claims disputed there, and much confused bickering, sieging and harassing in consequence: of which quarrel we must speak anon.

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 03 by Thomas Carlyle

Outside of these lines, with a 50,000 dashing fiercely round us, under any kind of leading; pouncing on our convoys; harassing and sieging US,—our siege of Toumay were a sad outlook.

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 15 by Thomas Carlyle