harassing
Example Sentences
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Central Command said it used Apache helicopters to sink the Iranian speedboats that were harassing traffic in the strait.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 5, 2026
But both Caine and Hegseth downplayed those hostilities, with the general describing it as "low harassing fire" and the Pentagon chief saying that "right now, the ceasefire certainly holds."
From Barron's • May 5, 2026
“But I spent decades on the other side of this, and if I had been confronted by people running through Scientology buildings and harassing me or staff, it would have pushed me further into Scientology.”
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 28, 2026
He has also been accused of harassing people while travelling in Japan and Israel.
From BBC • Apr. 15, 2026
Colonel Aureliano Buendía was alive, but apparently he had stopped harassing the government of his country and had joined with the victorious federalism of other republics of the Caribbean.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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