siege

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

As a medical student, Hamawy had gone to Bosnia, flying into Sarajevo on a white U.N. plane while the city was under siege.

From Slate ● Jul. 14, 2026

The business model of the mainstream press is under siege for reasons of technology and consumer preference.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026

Almost ten years had passed since they had first laid siege to the town, and it seemed as strong as ever.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

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

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

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

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 Dodsley, Robert

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

From Washington Post ● Feb. 24, 2022

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 Carlyle, Thomas

But Clive's keen eyes discerned stuff for better things than the sieging of Indian forts in the young volunteer.

From A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume III by McCarthy, Justin

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 Kennedy, John Pendleton

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 Cullum, Ridgwell