beleaguer

How To Use beleaguer In A Sentence

• Later presidents tried to revive it to conjure up domestic support for their beleaguered policies.
• The beleaguered prime minister is coming under yet more pressure.
• The first was to do some fact-finding, and the second was to lend some support to a beleaguered profession.
• The beleaguering mountains smelled a flatlander when they saw one, and hated me right back. A June Defection
• We sought to measure the psychic state of freedom, relaxation, and comfort versus that of anxiety, drivenness, and beleaguerment.
• In the process the British created their national identity — as the special people of a small, beleaguered island — which compelled them to see their kin, the Americans, as a distinct people barbarized by their savage continent. 1812 and All That: A New Country at War
• It was an invitation to his beleaguered opponent, but Hewitt might as well have been meaning the delivery of the championship.
• Civilian trap in the beleaguer city has been airlifted to safety.
• The arrival of the fresh medical supplies was a welcome sight for the beleaguered doctors working in the refugee camps.
• Attention, beleaguered savers: Banks across the nation, including Bank of America Corp., Citigroup Inc. and Northern Trust Corp., are bumping up rates on longer-term certificates of deposit. CD Rates Start Ticking Up