How to Use harass in a Sentence

harass

verb

• He claims that he is being unfairly harassed by the police.
• She was constantly harassed by the other students.
• Mejia was scared more people would come in to harass them — or worse.
  — Ben Goggin, NBC News, 19 Aug. 2022
• The bus is full, and the officials only harass four of us.
  — Alán Pelaez Lopez, refinery29.com, 15 Mar. 2023
• From inside the skate park, 23-year-old Alegria yelled at the deputies to stop harassing the kids.
  — Keri Blakinger, Los Angeles Times, 24 Jan. 2024
• Did Kang ever tell the swimmers to stop harassing the girl?
  — Scott M. Reid, Orange County Register, 18 May 2024
• And people aren’t going to pay that kind of money just to harass me.
  — Mary Colurso | [e-mail], al, 10 May 2022
• Court records show he was charged with harassing phone calls and written threats to cause harm.
  — Samira Asma-Sadeque, Peoplemag, 1 Dec. 2023
• And these trolls came on to those pages and started to harass the family members.
  — CBS News, 1 June 2022
• There were no school uniforms, and the gang members on campus didn’t harass him.
  — New York Times, 28 Apr. 2022
• Either way, your mom should speak to the family and urge them to stop harassing you.
  — Harriette Cole, The Mercury News, 29 Feb. 2024
• Bieber asked her fans to stop harassing people, once and for all, in her full statement.
  — Alyssa Bailey, ELLE, 13 June 2023
• In 2019, the court declined to hear the case of a man who said his former boyfriend sent people to harass him using the dating app Grindr.
  — David McCabe, New York Times, 19 Jan. 2023
• Har says the guards did not harass anyone physically, but the captives were most afraid for the 17-year-old girl.
  — Daniel Estrin, NPR, 5 Apr. 2024
• The noise would serve two purposes: to alert others of danger and further harass the bear.
  — Jonathan Edwards, Anchorage Daily News, 19 July 2022
• The group started harassing Lee, 36, before Lewis and Spencer began to punch, kick and beat her with sticks.
  — Drew Dawson, Journal Sentinel, 16 Mar. 2023
• This is not the first time Russian fighter jets have harassed American planes over the Black Sea.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 16 Mar. 2023
• All of the women were living in private rental housing at the time they were harassed, according to the study.
  — Thao Nguyen, USA TODAY, 22 May 2024
• The owner asked to not have his store identified or his name published for fear that he would be harassed.
  — Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2023
• Fans harassed him, slamming their fists on his office door, trying to catch a glimpse.
  — Jay Deitcher, Rolling Stone, 2 July 2024
• The No Limit boss plays a neighborhood goon who gets picked up and harassed by Kurt Russell.
  — Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 17 Nov. 2023
• In turn, some species of birds will harass owls as a strategy to reduce attacks on their own flocks.
  — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 17 Feb. 2023
• More than one-third said they had been harassed by Chinese police or state agents while in Turkey.
  — Keir Simmons, NBC News, 10 Aug. 2023
• The husbands who proposed the banners were harassed online, called groomers and pedophiles.
  — Hailey Branson-Potts, Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2023
• In the video, a group of locals harass a pair of juvenile leopards that seem to be severely drugged.
  — Ben Ayers, Outside Online, 27 July 2022
• Oh, and there was also a bird mascot named Tori, who would prance onstage and harass them every half hour.
  — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 3 Apr. 2024
• The majority said the law does not require a showing of intent to harass.
  — Bruce Vielmetti, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 16 May 2022
• Lilith and other dancers asked not to be identified by their legal names for fear of being harassed or stalked.
  — Ava Sasani, New York Times, 16 May 2023
• Most, if not all, of the women whom O’Reilly allegedly harassed have never worked in television news again.
  — Julie Roginsky, Deadline, 23 Oct. 2024
• But relentlessly harassed by threats of murder and rape, Hamidi now lives under constant police protection.
  — Joseph Ataman, CNN, 13 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Nov 2024