siege
Example Sentences
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Los Angeles is a hot spot in a nationwide wave of copper thefts as prices for the metal sit near record highs, leaving telecommunications companies under siege.
But maybe that's what this Scottish side needs – a siege mentality.
From BBC
UK special forces troops who served in Sarajevo during the siege have told the BBC the allegations are an "urban myth".
From BBC
Du Bois has never looked more usefully prescient than in the present, when Otherness, in its many varieties, is at once widely acknowledged and under vicious, reactive siege.
From New York Times
He showed up in Waco, Texas, last weekend to preach during the 30th anniversary of the Branch Davidian siege at Mount Carmel, just outside Waco.
From Salon
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