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

A veteran anti-Assad activist, Jandali, 48, lived through siege and exile and has written more than 20 books.

From Barron's ● Aug. 7, 2026

The siege is the subject of Anthony Kaldellis’s “1453: The Conquest and Tragedy of Constantinople.”

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

As his beloved Bronchos sputtered and fluttered against the endless siege of that black-shirted machine, all he could do was wait for the debacle to be over.

From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger

Modern battlefields are increasingly urban; sieges increasingly prolonged; hunger increasingly systematic.

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

You could calculate exactly how many power cells were needed, and sieges could be extended for up to eight hours.

From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer

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

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

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

"But there is time ahead of us," said everybody at Breslau; "Glogau will take some sieging!"

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