How to Use beleaguered in a Sentence

beleaguered

adjective

• Many expressed outrage and empathy for the beleaguered housewife.
  — Avery Stone, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Oct. 2024
• Analysts say the rise of Milei suggests a new openness among beleaguered Argentines to a third way.
  — Washington Post, 18 Apr. 2022
• Understanding that dogs are not programmed to behave a certain way may help improve the PR of these beleaguered breeds.
  — Jack Tamisiea, Scientific American, 28 Apr. 2022
• Baker Mayfield deserves the Browns' respect for raising the bar on a beleaguered franchise that just five years ago was the laughingstock of sports.
  — Rob Oller, USA TODAY, 23 Apr. 2022
• Joan’s presence motivated the beleaguered French soldiers, and within nine days of her arrival the city was liberated.
  — Tacita Quinn, CNN, 15 Oct. 2024
• Every day, volunteers risk their lives to deliver supplies to Ukrainian frontline forces or beleaguered civilians, and sadly, many give their lives in doing so.
  — Robert Garbett, Fortune, 26 Apr. 2022
• White nationalists today regard themselves as a beleaguered identity group.
  — Francis Fukuyama, Harper’s Magazine , 27 Apr. 2022
• The rainout gives the Yankees a day to rest their banged-up and beleaguered bullpen.
  — Ronald Blum, Chron, 17 Oct. 2022
• And even in the face of that threat, Germany has remained slow to spend on its beleaguered forces.
  — David L. Stern, Washington Post, 16 Feb. 2023
• For beleaguered movie theaters, the decades-in-the-making film can’t come soon enough.
  — Rebecca Rubin, Chicago Tribune, 7 Dec. 2022
• The trend should prompt cheers from beleaguered New Yorkers.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 5 Jan. 2024
• The Lions have long been the NFL’s most woebegone team, its fans the league’s most beleaguered.
  — USA TODAY, 25 Jan. 2024
• Others have joined forces with the beleaguered army to defend key cities.
  — Alex De Waal, Foreign Affairs, 18 Sep. 2023
• The Grapevine might give that beleaguered spot a new beginning.
  — Sarah Blaskovich, Dallas News, 18 Aug. 2023
• The big league club slogged through 100-loss seasons, but up-and-coming prospects stood out on the farm to give the fan base hope for its beleaguered team.
  — Jacob Calvin Meyer, Baltimore Sun, 6 Apr. 2024
• For the beleaguered Aussies, MacArthur was nothing less than a savior.
  — Tony Perrottet, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Sep. 2024
• The exchange’s staff was in the middle of a crisis meeting with its beleaguered founder, Sam Bankman-Fried.
  — Erin Griffith and David Yaffe-Bellany, BostonGlobe.com, 6 July 2023
• Something had to be done to fix their beleaguered pitching staff.
  — Daniel R. Epstein, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
• The result is a beleaguered league, which has now become a target of memes and jokes on the Internet.
  — Mark Heim | [e-mail], al, 5 Aug. 2023
• Kid Rock has had enough of piling onto Bud Light when the beleaguered beer brand is already down.
  — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 14 Dec. 2023
• Before last month’s trade deadline, the Mets acquired starter Paul Blackburn from the A’s to help their beleaguered staff.
  — Peter Sblendorio, New York Daily News, 13 Aug. 2024
• But this season has been a wiping of the slate for those beleaguered supporters.
  — Ben Morse, CNN, 17 Feb. 2024
• One thing all parties agree on is that a strike would be a disaster for the already beleaguered supply chain in the U.S.
  — Eli M. Rosenberg, NBC News, 17 Nov. 2022
• The move raises more questions about how long the beleaguered British leader can stay in office.
  — Danica Kirka, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Oct. 2022
• The 2011 merger of a beleaguered SCB bank involved two other lenders.
  — Aniruddha Ghosal, Quartz, 11 Apr. 2024
• The bad news for beleaguered customers is that those long lines and empty shelves may not be going away anytime soon.
  — Alana Semuels, TIME, 18 Sep. 2024
• Read full article Now the last-place Sox are the beleaguered jobbers taking a beating at their home park.
  — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Aug. 2023
• The storm has dropped even more rain and snow on the beleaguered state and sent thousands of residents racing from rising waters.
  — Elvia Limón, Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 2023
• The beleaguered home goods retailer Bed Bath & Beyond has announced plans to close about 150 stores around the country.
  — oregonlive, 16 Sep. 2022
• With tens of billions of dollars on hand, both companies are poised to snap up smaller and more beleaguered drillers over the coming years.
  — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 1 May 2023

Last Updated: 11 Nov 2024