How to Use besiege in a Sentence

besiege

verb

• Customers have besieged the company with questions.
• The story follows your run-of-the-mill suburbanite family besieged by angry spirits emerging from their television.
  — Katie Rife, EW.com, 29 Oct. 2024
• Business advocacy groups have besieged the Legislature with calls to either undo the changes or reach a compromise on minimum wage and paid leave policies.
  — Arpan Lobo, Detroit Free Press, 16 Nov. 2024
• But now, the Baraks’ home is less bestilled than besieged.
  — Patrick Kingsley, New York Times, 5 May 2023
• Hetfield said from a small stage besieged by the crowd on the field.
  — Dylan Owens, The Know, 8 June 2017
• But Arnold reached Quebec with enough men to besiege the city.
  — William Anthony Hay, WSJ, 24 May 2018
• Soup kitchens and food banks across the country are besieged by the hungry.
  — Michael Greenberg, The New York Review of Books, 16 Apr. 2020
• The army marched to Mount Algidus and used the stakes to besiege the Aequi, who surrendered.
  — Jeff Suess, The Enquirer, 6 Sep. 2022
• The last aid convoy came in February and the camp is besieged on all sides.
  — Josh Rogin, The Denver Post, 24 July 2019
• But the retreat is anything but peaceful, as the place is soon besieged by a plague of mice.
  — Sophia Nguyen, Washington Post, 30 July 2024
• Angry crowds and farmers on tractors besieged the Fed; the keys to cars that dealers could not sell were sent to him in the mail.
  — The Economist, 12 Dec. 2019
• Yet the beast was besieged, covered by hundreds of feasting ticks of all life-stages.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 8 Aug. 2018
• The French champions will have to rely on the strength of their squad depth as they are besieged by absences.
  — SI.com, 26 Aug. 2019
• Experts say Russia may try to besiege Ukrainian forces by linking its troops in the north and the south.
  — Washington Post, 15 Apr. 2022
• Over the years, the story of the little blond French girl besieged by lions became something of a legend in the area.
  — Alice Gregory, The New Yorker, 19 May 2018
• After one bloody skirmish, the surgeon Ambroise Paré had to dress the wounds of the soldiers who had been shot by the hackbuts of the besieged.
  — John J. Ross, WSJ, 6 Mar. 2020
• The Warriors, besieged by injuries, lost to the Toronto Raptors in the Finals.
  — Arash Markazi, latimes.com, 3 July 2019
• In the 1980s, the statue was moved to a new location: a Tudor mansion that Cromwell had besieged in the civil war.
  — Andrew Sullivan, Daily Intelligencer, 8 Sep. 2017
• Valve’s seemed a bit besieged the last few months, and even more so after the announcement of the Epic Games Store earlier this week.
  — Hayden Dingman, PCWorld, 6 Dec. 2018
• One White House official said Jackson is growing weary of a process that has been besieged from the start.
  — The Washington Post, OregonLive.com, 25 Apr. 2018
• One Sunday card was besieged by rain with everything off the turf.
  — John Cherwa, latimes.com, 19 Oct. 2017
• The Ravens have been besieged by interview requests for their young star to a degree unmatched since the prime days of Lewis.
  — Childs Walker, baltimoresun.com, 15 Nov. 2019
• Hospitals in Wuhan are besieged by the sick, and only a handful of clinics are able to test for the disease.
  — Time, 30 Jan. 2020
• This makes sense since he would likely be besieged by lawsuits if the surplus were given to him.
  — Adrianne Jeffries, The Verge, 22 Mar. 2018
• The fighting reached a climax when the British and their allies besieged a Pequot fort and set it aflame, hunting down those who fled.
  — Daniel Immerwahr, Harper's Magazine, 11 Oct. 2022
• From the start, her neat, poppy melody is besieged by distortion.
  — Jon Pareles, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2020
• The film also shows how besieged the couple was by the paparazzi, at a turning point in celebrity culture.
  — Caryn James, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 May 2024
• The episode has inflamed a major health system that has been besieged by the coronavirus.
  — New York Times, 2 Apr. 2020
• Police have been besieged and outnumbered to combat the armed gangs.
  — CBS News, 16 Mar. 2024
• There is a lot more to besieging a walled fortress than simply running around with ladders.
  — William Gurstelle, Popular Mechanics, 11 Apr. 2019

Last Updated: 18 Dec 2024