How to Use beset in a Sentence

beset

verb

• A lack of money is the greatest problem besetting the city today.
• The area has been beset by extreme cold since early January.
  — Kurt Chirbas, NBC News, 12 Jan. 2022
• Once inside, convoys were sometimes beset by desperate crowds and armed gangs.
  — Dorothy Wickenden, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2024
• This place has been beset by ghosts for some time to the point that some townspeople wear scarecrow sacks over their heads as protection.
  — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 18 Dec. 2021
• Other Illinois cities have also been beset by increasing crime.
  — Jeremy Gorner, chicagotribune.com, 12 Jan. 2022
• Yet at the same time, the world was beset with another surge of Covid-19 across multiple regions of the globe.
  — Tlalit Bussi Tel Tzure, Forbes, 21 Dec. 2021
• From the beginning, their relationship has been beset with problems.
  — Lori Gottlieb, The Atlantic, 28 Oct. 2024
• The pitching staff has been beset by injuries, with nearly every member of the starting rotation spending time on the injured list.
  — Joe Reedy, Chicago Tribune, 27 Oct. 2024
• While the blithely unworried are hindered by too little imagination, the florid fantasies of QAnon show that some Americans are beset by too much of the same.
  — Jennifer Szalai, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2022
• Even the walk from the front door to the gutter is beset with peril.
  — Karen Russell, The New Yorker, 4 June 2017
• Climate change, Covid and the threat of war may beset Gen Zers.
  — New York Times, 28 Apr. 2022
• The program had been beset with problems from the start.
  — Richard A. Webster, ProPublica, 11 Apr. 2023
• On the day that Charlie was buried, the church and the graveyard were beset by reporters.
  — Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2023
• Polling has been beset by a host of challenges during the past few years.
  — Maria Eloisa Capurro, Bloomberg.com, 18 Nov. 2020
• Yet the project has been beset with delays and mounting costs.
  — Corinne Purtill, Los Angeles Times, 6 Mar. 2024
• In the sequence where Belle runs away from the Beast's castle and is beset by wolves, the Beast rescues her.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 14 Dec. 2022
• Over the years it has been beset by leaks, mold and issues with its facade.
  — orlandosentinel.com, 10 July 2021
• Kela has been beset with biceps tendonitis off and on for the past five weeks.
  — Stefan Stevenson, star-telegram.com, 1 July 2017
• Thinking back to the origins of the pandemic in March, we were beset by fear.
  — Mona Charen, Star Tribune, 20 Oct. 2020
• In the past year, EA has been beset by scandal, including the fall of Bankman-Fried, one of its largest donors.
  — Nitasha Tiku, Anchorage Daily News, 7 July 2023
• To be sure, the work has been long and tedious, beset by setbacks at every turn.
  — John Gallagher, Freep.com, 19 Dec. 2019
• The museum has been beset by delays, partly due to the drop in oil prices.
  — Bloomberg.com, 7 Sep. 2017
• Credit Suisse has been beset by a litany of scandals over the past few years.
  — Siladitya Ray, Forbes, 16 Mar. 2023
• The fund was also beset by massive amounts of fraud that cost the state billions of dollars.
  — Adam Beam, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2023
• The scandals that have beset the empire on both sides of the Atlantic have cost well over $2 billion so far.
  — David Folkenflik, NPR, 16 Sep. 2024
• Many hundreds of fires burned just on that one night, in this borough which had been beset by fires for the past nine years.
  — Ian Frazier, The New Yorker, 15 July 2024
• The bank was tightly linked to the tech industry, which is beset by layoffs.
  — Ellen Francis, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Mar. 2023
• From the start, the reform process was beset by dissent and infighting.
  — Los Angeles Times, 5 Aug. 2021
• The overland route to the southern peninsula is beset by gangs.
  — Chris Kenning, The Courier-Journal, 20 Aug. 2021
• Darnold has had to break in a new receiving group that has been beset by injuries.
  — Zach Helfand, latimes.com, 9 Oct. 2017

Last Updated: 15 Nov 2024