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siege

[seej] / sidʒ /






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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

Mr. Kaldellis evokes the drama and uncertainty of the siege.

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

It came as no surprise to the ferret to see a large siege tower under construction.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques

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

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

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

He knows every foot of the ground, having sieged here, in his boyhood, once before.

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 15 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

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

"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

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




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