siege

At the time, rebel-held areas in Homs were under siege by the government, and residents were struggling to access food and medicine.

From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026

Western Europe, which had been remarkably relaxed about the siege as it was happening, found itself confronting an enemy much more formidable than before.

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

John came back and together they watched the lifting of the siege.

From "The Door in the Wall" by Marguerite de Angeli

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

From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2023

Turk said Israel's "imposition of sieges that endanger the lives of civilians by depriving them of goods essential for their survival is prohibited under international humanitarian law".

From Reuters ● Oct. 10, 2023

I had read about sieges like this in my English history book, but in ancient days soldiers had worn armor and ridden horseback and used battering rams against the city walls.

From "Homesick" by Jean Fritz

And at 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 ● Jul. 12, 2023

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

“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

We're sieged in by planes and ground forces of Savannah Fortress.

From The Night of the Long Knives by Virgil Finlay

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

From Washington Post ● Feb. 24, 2022

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

What could such tender creatures have done at such a place as the sieging of Charlestown?

From Horse-Shoe Robinson A Tale of the Tory Ascendency by John Pendleton Kennedy

On the other hand, that this mode of sieging by red-hot balls seems a little unusual; for the rest, that he has himself no order or intention but that of resisting to the last.'

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 12 by Thomas Carlyle

He knew that before him lay the culminating battle of his long and ardent sieging of Fortune's stronghold.

From The Trail of the Axe A Story of Red Sand Valley by Ridgwell Cullum