besiege

Example Sentences

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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

But it has stopped the Russians from moving on to besiege the larger cities of Kramatorsk and Sloviansk.

From New York Times • May 17, 2023

Adah the Poor Thing, hemiplegious egregious besiege us.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver