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 siÃ¨cle 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
They fight for justice for a woman who was harassed by her boss at the workplace.
According to local legend, the killer whales would even guide the tiny whale boats out to the hunt so that the whalers could harpoon and lance the harassed animal.
Small and medium enterprises are harassed by the state or gangsters' rackets.
When Jones shook his head, Cochrane said harassedly; "Better get one picked out. Operation: Outer Space
harassed working mothers
open up the kotel so that its 50-50 for men and women and women are allowed to doven and read torah there without being harassed and physically assaulted and maybe we can open up this discussion on equality and inclusion in the jewish world. JPPPI Don’t Like Frum People | Jewschool
Mr. Lukashenko allowed opposition candidates to take part in larger numbers than in the previous parliamentary vote, in 2004, and, unlike last time, left them unharassed. Belarus Vote Leaves Opposition in Cold
He could not distinguish her words but she sounded harassed and tense.
There are also the typical DD telefilms featuring drunken husbands and harassed wives, or women collectors in district bungalows being leered at by local goons.
They were routinely harassed when driving their cars or walking down the street. Times, Sunday Times
Harassed operators patiently listen to complaints about cancelled reservations or travel plans gone haywire.
It is perhaps not surprising that the ebullient Minister, harassed by multifarious problems from all quarters, has lost his cool.
But we, too, have a long, long tradition of politically-active people and blameless joes who walked down the wrong street being harassed and beaten-up by the security forces. Do new post-pantsbomber TSA security directives kill inflight WiFi? (UPDATED) Boing Boing
Sultans, rajahs, maharajahs, datus, etc., under ordinary circumstances have been and still are in most of the unprotected States unable to control the chiefs under them, who have independently levied taxes and blackmail till the harassed cultivators came scarcely to care to possess property which might at any time be seized. The Golden Chersonese and the way thither
The harassed villagers who live on the reserve might come closest to entertaining the notion. Times, Sunday Times
Several hugs for Matt, many ogles at incredibly hot guys, and one hour of frustrating luggage checking later, four harassed but extremely excited girls huddled around Rachel, wishing her luck.
Or: Your boss and fellow workers constantly tell offensive jokes and you have been sexually harassed.
In vain, you will have harassed your mind with cankering thoughts for half a lifetime; for it will be just as if you had gone through the confused mazes of a dream on the third watch! Hung Lou Meng
Having lost her husband at a young age she had to earn her living as a housemaid where she was ill-treated and sexually harassed by the house owner.
Candidates are not harassed, hazed, or otherwise coerced into quitting at any time.
They often saw Hunter pass by on his bicycle, looking worried and harassed.
Innocents were being harassed through police at some places by framing them in false cases, PSA was invoked indiscriminately and NC workers were resorting to their old goonda tactics. 'Taliban presence - fear-psychosis for political purposes�� :Mehbooba
More than 80 women were harassed at the Las Vegas convention of naval aviators, an annual anything-goes party.
Even though they had very obviously secured victory and there was no way back for Wexford still they harassed and hassled the visitors.
More than 80 women were harassed at the Las Vegas convention of naval aviators, an annual anything-goes party.
According to Rosene, agricultural employees harassed him by following him, bugging his phone, and laying a trail of heptachlor between his motel room and car.
The Confederate navy was spectacularly successful with its commerce raiders, which harassed and destroyed Union ships in global warfare.
A number of black youths have complained of being harassed by the police.
In last year's presidential elections, the main opposition candidate - a Hutu - was harassed, his supporters intimidated and ballot stuffing was rife.
It's the constancy of calls, the harassed and troubled nature of people on the phone, people are very impatient, they are very abusive of operators.
I live in a society in which crowded schedules and harassed conditions are evidence of importance, so I develop a crowded schedule and harassed conditions.
The girl had been harassed for dowry by her in-laws since her marriage two years ago, but this year they had become particularly cruel towards her.
One woman claimed that she had been sexually harassed by a male manager.
Our partner may be harassed and grumpy with work pressures or trying to make ends meet. The Sun
It was kinda funny to watch someone else and wonder if I look that harassed on the average Saturday.
In Wilson College, Mumbai, an assistant librarian committed suicide because the college authorities had allegedly harassed her.
Soon, merchants could pitch their stalls unharassed and traders no longer negotiated with one another at crossbow-point, and the people of Tapper Town prospered as never before. GANDOLO OF THE WATCHFUL EYE • by Bill Ward
Some women are afraid to walk the streets of their own neighbourhood for fear of being harassed by johns in passing cars.
After this, he claimed, he began to be harassed by the police. Times, Sunday Times
A Pentagon survey of 90, 000 soldiers last year found six in 10 claimed to have been sexually harassed.
Harassed by famine and excessive taxes, people will resort to eating leaves, roots, flesh, wild honey, fruits, flowers and seeds.
Hobbie Elliot had, in the meanwhile, pursued his journey rapidly, harassed by those oppressive and indistinct fears that all was not right, which men usually term a presentiment of misfortune. The Black Dwarf
They have been harassed at work and their property has been vandalized.
Delegates to the Democratic convention in Boston, though, did not have to hide their Kerry buttons to avoid being assaulted, harassed, or misdirected by Republican protestors.
The influence of the dear old scenes was something, and his cheeriness was a great deal more; the peaceful present was not harassed or disturbed, and the foreboding, on which she might not dwell, made it the more precious. Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster
The mother had complained about being harassed but the police failed to act. Times, Sunday Times
But Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, began having second thoughts about a military career a few years ago after other soldiers harassed him for being a Muslim, he told relatives in Virginia.
After this, he claimed, he began to be harassed by the police. Times, Sunday Times
Though, when the American Association of University Women Foundation surveyed more than 1,600 students in eighth through 11th grade, 25 percent of the girls and 10 percent of the boys who said they had been harassed or abused said the harasser was a school employee. Michelle Malkin
On Okinawa, however, two-thirds of the 20 military women Fowler interviewed said they had been sexually harassed.
BoB says: looking at patriot act, Google “lil Red Book” get harassed due to their College work? while aei boobs from bohemia run the state dept freely? and that atta was known of well before 9/11? that many have died. that millions have been lied for what, political ideology? while ignoring other issues for your greed neo-kooks what have you done? that 8 billion was “lost in IRAQ” that aegis is shooting at civilians? that more billions have been lost? that Halliburton has engorged itself? mercenaries? Think Progress » Bush Caught on Tape: “A Wiretap Requires A Court Order. Nothing Has Changed.”
Opposition candidates claim they are often prevented from campaigning, harassed and kept off ballots and that election rigging and ballot-box stuffing are common. Times, Sunday Times
One woman claimed that she had been sexually harassed by a male manager.
When he felt harassed he had a habit of repeatedly gesticulating with them to emphasize a point before ramming them back on. THE TOUCH OF INNOCENTS
The craving for "the return of day," which the sick so constantly evince, is generally nothing but the desire for light, the remembrance of the relief which a variety of objects before the eye affords to the harassed sick mind. Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not
His tenure got off to a rocky start yesterday, when he was jeered and harassed by left-wing members of the European Parliament.
Bunch of marines, with Sigourney Weaver, in tow, is harassed by a corporate big wig, this time played by Giovanni Ribisi, instead of Paul Riser. Five Reasons Avatar Sucked | myFiveBest
But now I looked upon no city scene, no picture built upon the substantial foundation of daddy at the office all day, fixing a leaky faucet of an evening, painting the woodwork during his summer vacation; or mom, after a pleasant afternoon with the girls, unstintedly opening cans for supper and harassedly watching the cleaning woman who came in once a week. Greener Than You Think
Women without a veil were harassed by men on street corners. Times, Sunday Times
It takes a good deal of time to explain why a harassed lawyer, his domineering mother-in-law, narcoleptic uncle, his ex-cook and a fellow legal letch should all arrive at a Parisian lovenest on the same night. Once Bitten – review
Military history is littered with tales of vital reports delayed by dunderheads, or overlooked by harassed staff officers: or simply not believed by high commanders.
Joseph is not a chaste man sexually harassed by the wife of Potiphar, but a male beauty who sexually teases her.
Space is always found, no matter how harassed the public relations person. Times, Sunday Times
These are poets as moral actors voicing concerns and dilemmas; they are conscience-stricken purchasers, harassed homemakers, debonair lovers, anxious motorists and old grumps.
They often saw Hunter pass by on his bicycle, looking worried and harassed.
I had my children and four others clinging to my leg, my hair was wildly askew and my clothes were smeared with jam: every inch the harassed earth mother.
Though he was repeatedly banned, and harassed in other ways, the ban was lifted for 10 days in early December 1961 to permit Lutuli and his wife to accept the prize in Oslo. ANC Daily News Briefing
The prosecutor harassed me and pressured me enormously.
Organising her wardrobe for the collections took her harassed assistants weeks. Times, Sunday Times
The survey found evidence of workers being punched, kicked, scalded, sexually harassed and attacked with bricks, walking frames and even airguns.
Stuyvesant, grousing, harassed the exiles and hampered their efforts to buy homes and cemetery plots.
There was something about the calm, unharassed way he laid all this out that made it hurt more. A Covert Affair
Or: Your boss and fellow workers constantly tell offensive jokes and you have been sexually harassed.
He doesn't look like the author of controversial books and articles, or like someone who has been harassed by the government and police.
The recent revolutions, it should be recalled, started with the self-immolation of a Tunisian fruit vendor, who was harassed and insulted by the authorities.
Matthews, who has further convictions for theft and carrying a crowbar, was also alleged to have racially harassed workers and customers at an Indian take-away, balti house and Chinese chip shop.
`His familiar big body, his big kind body, his harassed, handsome, uxorious face, worried, tender... love welled up in her. LOST CHILDREN
People whom you could swear you never set eyes on before will boldly declare they have acted as guide or something, and dog your footsteps all over the city; most of them are as "umble" as Uriah Heep himself in their annoying importunities, but some will not even hesitate to create a scene to gain their object, and, as the easiest way to get rid of them, the harassed traveller generally gives them a coin. Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama
A woman reporter complained one of them sexually harassed her in the locker room.
The employees said he also sexually harassed Ernestine Anoma, an assistant to the director.
If you're sexually harassed, you ought to do something about it.
And then, I felt harassed teaching a seminar in prosody — teaching form — at the graduate school level to unwilling, even surly students who were only taking it because they needed the credit. The Art of Living
The harassed postmen say the situation at the sorting office is utter chaos, with sacks of unopened mail.
I wouldn't drop the subject though, and harassed him all the way down to his locker and out the school's front door.
Dr. Das Dasgupta said that women are pressured and harassed by husbands demanding that their wives give birth to boys.
For not unfrequently it happens that, for some reason or another, one feels abased, and inclined to value oneself at nothing, and to account oneself lower than a dishclout; but this merely arises from the fact that at the time one is feeling harassed and depressed, like the poor boy who today asked of me alms. Poor Folk
Visiting human rights groups have been routinely harassed by the army and threatened and attacked by militias.
Animal spirits could be low, broken, oppressed, dejected, petulant, harassed or even ruffled beyond description.
A pensioner who was harassed by aggressive beggars in Swindon town centre has backed a campaign to stop vagrants pestering shoppers for cash.
Peg Woffington, could carry the _Wedding Day_ over its sixth night; and the harassed author received 'not £50 from the House for it.' Henry Fielding: a Memoir
On Okinawa, however, two-thirds of the 20 military women Fowler interviewed said they had been sexually harassed.
Mr Boyle told the jury that he had never racially abused or harassed Errol.
She claims she has been sexually harassed at work.
Did you think that if you harassed me enough I'd give you some money to go away?
Sometimes just sitting in the company of books, breathing in their slight mustiness, and listening to their quiet voices can renew a harassed soul.
It is said that from the dense forests nearby, wild beasts and fabulous birds like rocs harassed the Bagan people.
And, unable to discover causes, he is either harassed by superstitious dreams, or quietly and passively submitted to the mercy of nature and the elements.
The big company, or harassed author, delivers the hard drive from their unhappy computer to his repair centre in the Eurolink Business Centre, Brixton, and he will work on it until all is restored.
The incessant pricklings with which we were harassed, sufficiently indicated that our attire was peopled with the filthy vermin to which the Chinese and The Art of Travel Shifts and Contrivances Available in Wild Countries
Women have to dress modestly, to avoid being harassed by the locals.
He was trying to help some of his female German fellow workers who were being harassed and baited with cries of ‘work-shy Turks’.
The in-laws phoned my husband for months at times when they knew I probably would not be home, and harassed him endlessly with their feudal views of how he should shut up his rebellious wife.
Through sheer luck, he traveled unharassed and unharmed until he found a road that seemed familiar. Bread, Fish, Serpent, Stone (continued)
When someone expresses surprise that you have children, should you be flattered that you don't fit their vision of a lumpy, harassed nobody in a sick - spattered shell suit?
He was pressured and harassed all day, making his fourth quarter performance all the more impressive.
‘Very often,’ said a harassed loon at the former, ‘we don't know until the day they arrive.’
He said she was being harassed and the police hadn't done anything. The Sun
Further, the idea that because of this speech Obama “* will* be ridiculed, caricatured, harassed,” etc. by a conservative movement that has been doing all of those things for more than a year without any such provocation is breathtaking in its dishonesty. Waldo Jaquith - Will your core beliefs switch with the presidency?
These are poets as moral actors voicing concerns and dilemmas; they are conscience-stricken purchasers, harassed homemakers, debonair lovers, anxious motorists and old grumps.
A woman reporter complained one of them sexually harassed her in the locker room.
She told of how Sam had harassed one employee so bad that he had driven him to smoke grass to calm his nerves.
SOUTH HADLEY, Mass. — At first, it seemed like a morality play: school officials stand by as an innocent high school freshman, new in town, is harassed into suicide by a pack of older teens.
Thanks to harassed arts writers looking for easy targets, mime traditionally gets a bit of a kicking at the festival.
No jailbreaker has been sued or harassed other than to have their warranty denied.
Many have been harassed or persecuted in their own countries for political or religious reasons.
We watched as snorkeler after snorkeler harassed the lugubrious manatees.
Egyptian women are sexually harassed to an astonishing degree, groped, ogled, followed by catcalls, behavior that no law forbids. Egypt women stand for equality in the square
The besiegers lacked artillery, and their communications were harassed by the aggressive Enniskillen men.
Whales may be ‘harassed’ by noise from large commercial vessels, especially in shipping lanes or near busy ports.
And, even when it is diagnosed, harassed health professionals are often too busy to explain to patients how important it is to manage their condition properly, the charity says.
They were routinely harassed when driving their cars or walking down the street. Times, Sunday Times
From the first strains of funky double bass, they manage to transport the cold and harassed shoppers around them from the local drabness to a world where the sun shines and the living is easy.
Mordacks, who lives in a den below a bridge in York, and has very long harassed the law by a sort of cheap-jack, slap-dash, low-minded style of doing things. Mary Anerley
I could even listen with fair good humour to the harassed excuses of the Cockney porter carrying my valise as he protested that he didn't knaow nuffink abaht the trunk, guv ',' cos 'Erbert' ad gorn ter the guard's van for it, and where the 'ell' e'd got ter, Gawd ownly knew. Watershed
In East Timor, a few harassed policemen have the task of exhuming the bodies and collecting what evidence they can.
Try telling that to a million harassed parents when Mattel's Harry Potter merchandise doesn't hit the shops.
He looked pale and harassed.
Organising her wardrobe for the collections took her harassed assistants weeks. Times, Sunday Times
Germania Ford; but the resultless fighting dispirited and demoralized the people, while it only harassed and weakened the army. Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death
Deprived of a nation of their own, they have lived for centuries as a harassed minority, trapped in the border regions of hostile countries that frequently become war zones.
When the two harassed leaders took off from Luluabourg and headed for Stanleyville, they never made it: a Belgian crew member overheard Lumumba say he wanted to break off diplomatic relations with Belgium, and the Belgian pilot turned the plane toward Leopoldville, where Ndjili Airport was in the hands of Belgian paratroops. TIME.com: Top Stories
To be sure that we're going to get a decent kip every night and not be harassed by a bed partner who makes repeated attempts at foreplay.
He said she was being harassed and the police hadn't done anything. The Sun
There is no requirement to prove that anyone has been harassed, alarmed or distressed; the police and the courts decide that. Times, Sunday Times
How fortunate that the escapes always seem to happen at a time when harassed parents, wondering how to entertain their school free kids, will have time to organise trips to help the search.
Opposition candidates claim they are often prevented from campaigning, harassed and kept off ballots and that election rigging and ballot-box stuffing are common. Times, Sunday Times
And I am still being harassed and intimidated to this day.
They performed lewd acts, taunted the police, harassed the stiffs and produced great art.
In Antalya, activists said a handful of pro-regime supporters flown in from Syria harassed people as they arrived at the airport. Syrian Opposition Meets in Turkey
From the 1950s to the '70s it suppressed dissent, it harassed nonconformists and there's good evidence that it damaged the careers of some of our most unconventional writers and thinkers.
I find another harassed doctor to take the clinic but really she's meant to be elsewhere.
He also harassed the birth control advocate Margaret Sanger.
I spent my growing up years fighting mostly for my "dago" friends, not my black friends because they were good friends and went to school and were harassed and were in a minority. Oral History Interview with Eula McGill, December 12, 1974. Interview G-0039. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
It was this sentimental hint that gave a reasonable hope of taking her mind off the runes, and the harassed philologer set himself resolutely to the task. The Collectors
Ray Collins as Roscoe Denten, the harassed film director, and Michael O'Brien, as Rod, also contributed to the success of the show.
As most of us saw art class as a doss lesson, we ignored any advice given by our harassed art teacher.
No one has harassed us yet,' she said. Times, Sunday Times
Even the most harassed of producers would make the time to walk at least three times as far to Villandry along Marylebone High Street for its real bread or freshly made and interesting salads.
According to local legend, the killer whales would even guide the tiny whale boats out to the hunt so that the whalers could harpoon and lance the harassed animal.
So now our poor harassed actor had to deliver the cards, speak French, be aware of his eyeball, which twitched in compensation for the amount of concentration he was giving out, and look at me.
The point Anti war is making is even if Shah rukh khan does not come to US again, the problem wont go away, people are continually being harassed by American police state. The Shahrukh Khan Affair – The Aftermath « Antiwar.com Blog
Workers claim that they have been harassed and intimidated after complaining about working conditions and raising the issue of unionization.
All set a perfect mood for relaxing the strained sinews and harassed souls.
Autobiographies of overly ambitious youth relate how they were harassed by their classmates and warned against the sin of pride by the priest and nuns.
She had been sexually harassed at work.
Her boss often harassed her and was aware that, as the sole breadwinner of her four-member family, she was unlikely to protest.
A woman reporter complained one of them sexually harassed her in the locker room.
The supermarket was full of harassed-looking mothers with young children.
We, the Animal Rights Militia, have looked on for some years now as members of animal rights organisations such as the animal liberation front have attacked your property and harassed you.
When you hear of her situation you think immediately of words like harassed and careworn but Jacqui confounds every expectation.
The Oxford defence held firm throughout while James Forrest continually harassed the home defence.
In another scene, the Tamil girl is harassed by a drunken local youth and seeks refuge in the local temple.
With activists routinely imprisoned and harassed, the countercurrent to government restrictions is always struggling to gather momentum. Asma Uddin: Islam and Human Rights: Why It's Up to the Muslim Community to Prove Itself
Quite rightly, tenants also cannot be harassed or encouraged to leave. Times, Sunday Times
To pass a second night at an inn, seemed, even in the calculations of her own harassed faculties, utterly improper; and thus, driven to extremity, she forced herself to order a chaise for home; though with a repugnance to so compulsatory a meeting, that made her wish to be carried in it a corpse. Camilla
I turned to find Mrs. Abernathy striding down the steps toward us, looking and sounding harassed and more than a little stressed.
His various titles include chief designer, company director, marketing manager, and harassed househusband when his stylist wife is working abroad on location.
Had Muse pled not guilty, it would have been the first piracy trial on American soil since 1826, sending scores of harassed law clerks into the dimmest, darkest recesses of Admiralty law. D.R. Burgess: Somali Piracy: Send in the Marines...Then the Lawyers
It is quite right that a British citizen should not be harassed by the state if he or she is not suspected of wrongdoing.
One of the advertisements highlights the pressure that non-stop demands put on harassed parents.
Initially we harassed them for lulz, but then we realised that they ruin lives. Times, Sunday Times
Ms. O'Neill, the sexual-health educator, says she frequently gets complaints from parents who believe that their sons are being harassed by girls.
That is how much money they were willing to accept to give up all the privileges of whiteness: the ability to not suffer from racial profiling, not to be shot to death in a hail of 50 bullets fired at you; not to be called lascivious/wanton/aggressive because of 400+ year-old stereotypes; not to be questioned on your intellect; not to be written off before you even get your foot in the door; not to be followed nor harassed while shopping; not have your voice dismissed or disregarded in a group where you are the only Black; not to have to teach your children to navigate the systemic racism that affects their lives on a daily basis. BEAUTIFUL, ALSO, ARE THE SOULS OF MY BLACK SISTERS
Their products also underwent unusually strict customs checks and Chinese officials also harassed their workers, Yen said.
I understand that she was almost barricaded into her home based upon perceived fear by [the patient] that she would be victimised or harassed.
Over the years he has gambled, drunk, womanised and harassed his way into the headlines.
At the same time local industrialists and producers were harassed and intimidated.
My ship-arrival Talent's with the _Sylva_," said Morgan harassedly. Talents, Incorporated
A 33-year-old man who harassed a teenage girl and her family has lost an appeal against his conviction.
And come to think of it, I was recently harassed by a cashier in a shop.
She has been harassed by the press, who desperately need a story.
`His familiar big body, his big kind body, his harassed, handsome, uxorious face, worried, tender... love welled up in her. LOST CHILDREN
The old decrepit man watched as they harassed the beautiful young lady who was trying to enjoy her lunch in peace.
Unless it is formidably resourced, not likely in the current climate, what we will have, in reality, is a harassed inspectorship scurrying to keep up, and meeting silence and a closing of police ranks at every turn. Archive 2005-11-01
But one of the men entrusted with the job had harassedly asked him for advice. The Pirates of Ersatz
On a Friday evening, it was warm, busy and buzzy and perhaps that's why the staff looked harassed.
He was subsequently harassed by hordes of aggressive mice, and despite taking refuge in a tower in the middle of the Rhine, was eventually eaten by his pursuers.
If you put your hand just under the surface of the water in a bathtub," said the geophysics man harassedly, "and jerk it downward, you get a hollow that spreads out with a wave behind it. Long Ago, Far Away
Our partner may be harassed and grumpy with work pressures or trying to make ends meet. The Sun
A number of black youths have complained of being harassed by the police.

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