siege

When the capital came under siege by Islamist fighters, they managed to impose a partial blockade there and total blockades elsewhere including the city of Ségou.

From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026

Meanwhile the empire’s Italian allies still had the upper hand at sea—even at the height of the siege the Ottomans could not prevent ships from leaving or arriving.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026

That landmark picture features McElwee, then in his mid-30s, as he tries to chronicle the exploits of Union Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman, who laid siege to the South during the Civil War.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 16, 2026

Many fear the merger will result in massive job cuts in an industry that has been under siege from consolidations and layoffs.

From Barron's ● Jul. 15, 2026

Yes, it was at White Plains after all, but the Rebels had it under siege.

From "My Brother Sam is Dead" by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier

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

From Slate ● Nov. 19, 2025

We stretch beyond the cathedral and onto Pamplona’s city walls, where the stone holds centuries of sieges, prayers, and heartbreak.

From Salon ● Nov. 8, 2025

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

Volker Turk said sieges and abduction of hostages were both against international law.

From Reuters ● Oct. 11, 2023

For three thousand years, this little promontory has known sieges.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

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

Now, Yedlin has a baby daughter named Seneca — which is also a nod to the Roman philosopher and predominantly Black village sieged in the 1800s to build Central Park in New York.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 15, 2022

“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

The city's sieged, and thou thus chain'd In airy fetters of a lady's love!

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays Volume 14 of 15 by Robert Dodsley

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

From Washington Post ● Feb. 24, 2022

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

Friedrich is not thought to shine in the sieging line as he does in the fighting; which has some truth in it, though not very much.

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

The admiral's power exceedeth the king's," wrote Cecil to Nicholas White: "he is sieging of Poitiers, the winning or losing whereof will make an end of the cause.

From History of the Rise of the Huguenots Volume 2 by Henry Martyn Baird

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