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• Running backs are under siege across the league as teams want to get younger.
  — Calvin Watkins, Dallas News, 18 July 2023
• The world isn’t under siege, but on these shows the whole world is in every moment.
  — Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Sep. 2023
• For months, the court itself appeared to be under siege.
  — David G. Savage, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2023
• Meanwhile, the city of Springfield, Ohio, is under siege.
  — Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2024
• But leaving the city isn’t an option this time; the airport, under siege by gangs, has been forced to close.
  — Caitlin Stephen Hu, CNN, 18 Mar. 2024
• The city has felt under siege from graffiti for decades.
  — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 3 Feb. 2024
• The San Bernardino Mountains are under siege once again.
  — Jack Flemming, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2024
• The Cedar fire, followed quickly by the deadly Paradise fire and the Otay fire, held the region under siege for days.
  — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Oct. 2023
• Mayden doesn’t figure to be under siege this week against Boise State.
  — Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Sep. 2023
• Once the only game in town, Stop & Shop’s dominance is under siege.
  — Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 4 Aug. 2024
• If that’s not enough, we’re told democracy is under siege.
  — Tom Roland, Billboard, 3 Sep. 2019
• Gaza, home to 2.3 million people and one of the most densely populated places in the world, is under siege.
  — Doha Madani, NBC News, 15 Oct. 2023
• Ask Amy: Non-smokers want smokers to butt out French farmers aim to put Paris ‘under siege’ in tractor protest.
  — Hartford Courant, 13 June 2024
• Our oceans are under siege from being warmed and acidified.
  — Byerik Stokstad, science.org, 31 July 2024
• Gaza has been under siege since the Oct. 7 terror attack by Hamas in Israel, and hospitals in Gaza have run out of fuel and been bombed.
  — Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 21 Nov. 2023
• The first few weeks were a rush of logistics: getting employees, who were scattered across Ukraine, out of cities under siege.
  — WIRED, 17 July 2023
• Once inside the Capitol, Trump took no steps to restore order or aid the lawmakers under siege.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 13 Aug. 2023
• The grandfather, who drove over an hour to a kibbutz under siege, armed only with a pistol and rescued his kids and grandkids.
  — Shannon K. Crawford, ABC News, 12 Oct. 2023
• Trapped in a city under siege, a team of Ukrainian journalists struggle to report on the Russia-Ukraine war from the hotspot of Mariupol.
  — Savannah Salazar, Vulture, 13 Mar. 2024
• On the plus side, the film never takes its story, about a group of friends trapped in a barn under siege by zombie bats, all that seriously — and that's always fun.
  — Katie Rife, EW.com, 7 Nov. 2022
• Hospitals were under siege, and food and water were growing scarce.
  — Vivian Yee, New York Times, 17 Nov. 2023
• The voices of people living there provide a picture of how life has changed for them under siege and bombardment.
  — WSJ, 9 Nov. 2023
• In a play in which even the utilities are under siege, the actress’s electricity provides the power, full scale.
  — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 21 Sep. 2023
• Jets quarterback Zach Wilson is going to be under siege all night.
  — Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2023
• With the allegations piling up, but with many questions still unanswered, the BBC appeared to be under siege.
  — Mark Landler, New York Times, 12 July 2023
• And because Gaza is under siege and heavy bombardment, civilians have few avenues of escape, even if warned.
  — Amanda Taub, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2023
• In the town of Sderot, under siege for several days, the central police station was reduced to rubble, the streets littered with bodies.
  — Joshua Leifer, The New York Review of Books, 12 Oct. 2023
• And no one feels more under siege than quarterback Dak Prescott, who is the team’s best leader and also the biggest scapegoat for their playoff failure.
  — Clarence E. Hill Jr., Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 Mar. 2024
• At a time when Catholics are under siege, the Biden administration is targeting the victims.
  — Tommy Valentine, National Review, 13 Jan. 2024
• Fortenberry and her husband and kids live in the San Fernando Valley city, which has found itself under siege from fires, floods and heat storms in recent years.
  — Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 16 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 3 Nov 2024