besetting

Example Sentences

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Another foe besetting both Ukrainian and Russian forces is a more elemental force — the mud that follows winter’s end, transforming wide swaths of the front line into swamps of brown ooze.

From Los Angeles Times

When Lightfoot won her first race in 2019, she capitalized on corruption scandals besetting Chicago Democratic politics and positioned herself as an outsider who could shake up the city.

From Washington Post

It perpetuates itself through constant instability, for its solutions to the ills besetting the nation are transitory, contradictory and unattainable.

From Salon

The problems besetting the Guatemalan Consulate have been snowballing since March 2020, causing delays and other glitches for Guatemalan citizens trying to process and obtain passports, personal identification documents, consular identification cards and birth certificates.

From Los Angeles Times

Dom had spent years covering the crises besetting the forest, reporting for both The Post and the Guardian.

From Washington Post