besiege
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One scene that stuck with me: As Union troops besiege Atlanta, shells are exploding, people flee in panic.
From Salon • Mar. 29, 2025
The feeling of being in a great city as raging infernos besiege it but don’t quite subsume it?
From Slate • Jan. 9, 2025
"If they besiege us here, where can we go then? How long will this suffering continue? We have been displaced about six or seven times," he said.
From BBC • Dec. 30, 2024
His misdeeds follow him to a Passover Seder, where he reads the story of the plagues that besiege the Egyptians, who have enslaved the Jewish people.
From New York Times • Dec. 16, 2022
Adah the Poor Thing, hemiplegious egregious besiege us.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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