hounded

Example Sentences

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Stokes, whose side has been hounded by the media in Australia and come under enormous pressure back home, added that there was no room for complacency and it had been made clear to the players.

From Barron's • Jan. 3, 2026

Sir Ed welcomed the announcement but warned "many carers face many more months of being hounded, with changes not due to come into force for another year".

From BBC • Nov. 25, 2025

Soon the fraying American regiments were being hounded south by west through New Jersey, and by Christmas Day King George’s troops had driven them across the Delaware River into Pennsylvania.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025

He’ll leave that to the journalists, who have hounded Pelosi for months to announce whether she will seek another term, a question she has declined to directly answer.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 18, 2025

It was for that reason that he hounded Úrsula to tell him where in the courtyard the gold coins that they had found inside the plaster Saint Joseph were buried.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez