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How to use besiege in a sentence

12 example sentences · verb

Besiege means to beset or surround with armed forces for the purpose of compelling to surrender, to lay siege to, beleaguer. Example: “The box office was besieged by fans wanting tickets.”

Examples of besiege by meaning

verbTo beleaguer, to vex, to lay siege to, to beset.

  • They should have inflicted a much heavier loss on their besieged opponents, the highlight being a late goal for Aston Villa striker Ollie Watkins on debut after he came on as a substitute.2021 March 25, Phil McNulty, “England 5-0 San Marino”, in BBC Sport

verbTo assail or ply, as with requests or demands.

  • The box office was besieged by fans wanting tickets.

More sentences with besiege

  • A UN peacekeeping force, UNPROFOR, now protects and feeds the besieged population.2022, Priscilla Morris, Black Butterflies, Duckworth, page 113. From the entry UNPROFOR
  • Solicitants for office besiege him, and he of course finds his hands full for the present.2013, Walter Stahr, Seward: Lincoln's Indispensable Man, page 258. From the entry solicitant
  • The stratagem of besieging the kingdom of Wei to save the kingdom of Zhao advocates indirect confrontation.1991, Gao Yuan, “Stratagem 2: Besiege the kingdom of Wei to save the kingdom of Zhao”, in Lure the Tiger out of the Mountains: The…. From the entry Wei
  • "Jewmania” is for the primitive, paranoiac personality a nightmare besieging his would-be greatness.1946, Joost Abraham Maurits Meerloo, Aftermath of Peace: Psychological Essays, page 54. From the entry Jewmania
  • “Aunt Sissy!” a young voice screeched, then Sissy was besieged by five kids who looked barely a year apart.2008, Shelly Laurenston, The Mane Attraction, page 139. From the entry Catholic twins
  • The architect was besieged by commissions to create luxurious residences.2008 November 11, Nicholas Fox Weber, Le Corbusier, Knopf, →ISBN, page 317. From the entry ride the crest of the wave
  • The Brandeis house was besieged by condoling callers.1917, Edna Ferber, chapter 1, in Fanny Herself, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, page 7. From the entry condoling
  • Earlier this month, Johnson was ridiculed after being quizzed about the besieged city that has become a focal point of Syria’s civil war and coming up blank.2016 September 29, Josh Lederman, Patrick Mairs, “Brain freeze? Gary Johnson can’t name favorite world leader”, in PBS NewsHour…. From the entry Aleppo
  • A Polish-Lithuanian tabor besieged by twenty or thirty thousand Tartars must have closely resembled the overland wagon trains of American pioneers attacked by the Sioux or the Cherokee.2011, Norman Davies, Vanished Kingdoms, Penguin, published 2012, page 269. From the entry tabor
  • Boisterously as children besieging an icecream truck, they jockeyed for position in one of the lines, playing the dozens with their homeys, finetuning their Tales, catching up on cellblock scuttlebutt.1990, Seth Morgan, Homeboy, Vintage Books, →ISBN, page 237. From the entry icecream truck

Meaning of besiege

  1. verb To beset or surround with armed forces for the purpose of compelling to surrender, to lay siege to, beleaguer.
  2. verb To beleaguer, to vex, to lay siege to, to beset.
  3. verb To assail or ply, as with requests or demands.

Full definition of besiege

Questions about besiege in a sentence

How do you use besiege in a sentence?
Besiege is used as a verb. For example: “The box office was besieged by fans wanting tickets.”
What is a short sentence with besiege?
“The Brandeis house was besieged by condoling callers.”
What does besiege mean?
Besiege means to beset or surround with armed forces for the purpose of compelling to surrender, to lay siege to, beleaguer.

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