besiege

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

That decision to besiege rather than directly attack the giant Azovstal plant means that “many Russian units remain fixed in the city and cannot be redeployed,” the British assessment said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 25, 2022

Many had feared Farmer would be criticized for going to costly extremes to save one particular life, and that parents would besiege Zanmi Lasante with demands that their sick children be flown to Boston.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French

While stifling heat besieges the nation this weekend from the desert Southwest to the Northeast, coastal Californians can’t afford to be smug.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2022

In “The Shadow of the Vulture” Suleyman the Magnificent besieges Vienna, whose two champions are the carousing ex-knight Gottfried von Kalmbach and the indomitable woman-warrior known as Red Sonya.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 9, 2021

Widowhood besieges her, and “in the siege she has lost everything.”

From New York Times ● Jun. 9, 2020

Ebola’s embers still glow in West Africa, and yellow fever besieges Angola.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 14, 2016

Sigismund besieges the Hussites in Prague; he is defeated by them, led by John Ziska.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07 by Johnson, Rossiter

After word spread that a local attorney was starting a class action, residents said they were besieged by out-of-town lawyers competing aggressively for their business.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 12, 2026

More drones followed, once more plunging the residents of this besieged city into a 21st century version of the Blitz.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 24, 2026

Both are great island nations that find themselves besieged by cranky bond markets, at risk of losing their fiscal credibility.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026

In recent months, many residents have returned home to the island, besieged from June 2023 until March 2025, when the army recaptured the capital.

From Barron's ● Apr. 22, 2026

For the rest of the day, Harry was besieged with requests from the other sixth years to describe the sensation of Apparition.

From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling

Meanwhile, the RSF has been besieging the capital of North Darfur, el-Fasher, which is defended by a coalition of Darfurian former rebels, known as the Joint Forces, allied with the army.

From BBC ● Jun. 16, 2025

It is a besieging of the commercial breaks of historic proportions.

From Slate ● Nov. 3, 2024

“We need to continue besieging whoever we can and however we can, and praying for their release.”

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 20, 2023

The FBI was called in, military advisers were consulted and we had the nearly three-month spectacle of the U.S. government besieging a small, apocalyptic cult movement that was armed to the teeth.

From Salon ● Mar. 24, 2023

She did not have a chance to respond, because we were at her house, and she was more interested in besieging her father with questions.

From "Walk Two Moons" by Sharon Creech