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harry

[har-ee] / ˈhær i /


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Kounde cleared off the line and Garcia tipped Fernandez's near-post drive away as Espanyol continued to harry Flick's side.

From Barron's Jan. 3, 2026

Abolitionists made good use of the provision to harry slave traders.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 25, 2024

Blackthorne is part of a small fleet commissioned by England to find the mysterious and very wealthy island of Japan, and harry any Catholic forces along the way.

From New York Times Feb. 27, 2024

If protesters constantly harry that effort, an accident is inevitable.

From Science Magazine Jan. 14, 2020

"Your lord father commanded us to harry the coast, no more."

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

In the book, she’s a paper-thin virtual idol, whom Wade stalks and harries for attention.

From The Guardian Mar. 28, 2018

He hustles and harries various Chelsea defenders in quick succession as they pass the ball out from the back, no doubt knackering himself out in the process.

From The Guardian Dec. 12, 2017

Nelson harries the French fleet in the Mediterranean.

From BBC Nov. 21, 2014

He harries attacking midfielders, breaks up passes, and clogs space.

From Slate Jun. 17, 2014

Which I'd be aheap loath to count the numbers them two attribootes harries to the tomb.

From Wolfville Nights by Alfred Henry Lewis

She was presented with her award by actor Richard E Grant, who played the Spice Girls' harried manager Clifford in the 1997 movie Spice World.

From BBC Jul. 10, 2026

Fitzgerald calls him a wanderer “skilled in all ways of contending . . . harried for years on end.”

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 10, 2026

Initially, Joe and Angela don’t look so different from the pictures of couples we’ve seen before: harried and married, dead when they wed.

From Salon Jul. 5, 2026

Patients arrived with gangrenous foot wounds that harried providers elsewhere brushed off as athlete’s foot.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 14, 2026

“Grant me a little peace. Isn’t it enough that I am harried all day long at work? I thought that I had adequately described to you the horrors which I must face daily.”

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole

PGE would eventually shutter Trojan after decades of regulatory violations, forced shutdowns, construction flaws, costly repairs and constant harrying from antinuclear activist Lloyd Marbet through the state council.

From Salon Aug. 17, 2025

England's centre-back pairing Williamson and Millie Bright were on top form, Lauren Hemp added a further two assists to her name and Alessia Russo was outstanding up front, hurrying and harrying the French defence.

From BBC Jun. 5, 2024

According to a reporter’s intrepid Freedom of Information Act inquiries, enthusiastic pickleball ambassadors are employing the “USA Pickleball tool kit” and harrying local park departments to elbow out their tennis-and-basketball-playing neighbors.

From Slate Dec. 7, 2023

Mainz had defended well up to then, frustrating the visitors with persistent harrying and it looked like Lee Jae-sung’s first-half header was going to be enough to win the game.

From Washington Times Aug. 27, 2023

Only a few months before, she’d been peeling and stewing the soft food he ate, changing his diapers, cleaning his bedding and pajamas, and harrying his body with moistened towels and Q-tips.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides




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