harassed

How To Use harassed In A Sentence

• The Borneons, from being so harassed by these pirates, call the easterly wind 'the pirate wind.' The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy
• That is very much part of the social bargain whereby writers are "left alone" to implement their craft, as opposed to being harassed or hounded out of existence; they get their NEA and Guggenheim fellowships, and everyone is happy since the power equations in society remain undisturbed. Anis Shivani: Creative Writing Programs: Is The MFA System Corrupt And Undemocratic?
• The mother had complained about being harassed but the police failed to act. Times, Sunday Times
• Women were able to walk on the streets unharassed, and exiled businessmen returned to rebuild the broken country. 13 « May « 2008 « Niqnaq
• She spoke of how her immediate boss propositioned her and sexually harassed her.
• The Battle of Monmouth Court House was at best a draw in terms of numbers killed, and the British effected an unharassed retreat during the night. O Captain, Our Captain
• All over the country, harassed parents are frantically trying to decide how to entertain their offspring, rather than pleasing themselves.
• He had passed an unsettled life in continued exile up to his eightieth year; having been harassed with many contumelies and injuries, he had endured with difficulty a miserable and anxious existence, in continual trepidation; famine had driven him out of the land whither he had gone, by the command and under the auspices of God, into Egypt. Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1
• Tony, a room-service attendant for nine years, says he was harassed and threatened because he was one of the activists organizing workers.
• A conscientious attempt has been made to trace the life and career of Yvette Guilbert from her childhood in the Parisian gutter (or not far removed from it), through her glittering supremacy as a fin de siècle diseuse, on into the years of waning prestige and cultural pretension, and so to her last days, harassed and impecunious, in the bleak Provence of 1944. This Was Not Yvette