beleaguering

[ US /bɪˈɫiɡɝɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
  1. the action of an armed force that surrounds a fortified place and isolates it while continuing to attack
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How To Use beleaguering In A Sentence

  • The beleaguering mountains smelled a flatlander when they saw one, and hated me right back. A June Defection
  • But it isn't just the nuts and bolts of touring in support of a new album that can be so beleaguering: sometimes it's the talking about it on the phone with strangers.
  • Sorrow, Remorse, Indignation, Despair itself, all these like helldogs lie beleaguering the soul of the poor dayworker, as of every man: but he bends himself with free valour against his task, and all these are stilled, all these shrink murmuring far off into their caves. Past and Present
  • A new book by British psychoanalyst David Tuckett, Minding the Markets, published this month by Palgrave and sponsored by George Soros's Institute for New Economic Thinking, may just give us hope for understanding the bewildering and dangerous large group political phenomena that are beleaguering and paralyzing our country. Dr. Prudence L. Gourguechon: Fantastic Objects, Excited Stories and Dreadful Politics
  • Nowadays, one of the key problems beleaguering Beijing subway construction is the contradiction between station construction and space interval shield construction.
  • In this video from CNN, CBC News reports on a feathered foe beleaguering a local postal worker in a Calgary, Canada neighborhood. Hawk Attacks Postal Worker In Canada, Has To Wear Helmet (VIDEO)
  • Despair itself, all these like helldogs lie beleaguering the soul of the poor dayworker, as of every man: but he bends himself with free valour against his task, and all these are stilled, all these shrink murmuring far off into their caves. Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII.
  • I would listen to the euphonies of life and the sobriety of earth beleaguering me.
  • The beleaguering mountains smelled a flatlander when they saw one, and hated me right back. A June Defection
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