How to Use beleaguer in a Sentence

beleaguer

verb
  • So what does Trump -- beleaguered at home -- hope to accomplish on his first trip abroad?
    — Aaron David Miller, CNN, 17 May 2017
  • But most of the rest of the new budget is what Italy’s beleaguered economy doesn’t need.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 20 Dec. 2018
  • But there just might be hope for Florida’s beleaguered attack.
    — Edgar Thompson, OrlandoSentinel.com, 16 Sep. 2017
  • Two five-run leads in the first two games evaporated in big innings against the Rangers’ beleaguered bullpen.
    — Stefan Stevenson, star-telegram.com, 4 May 2017
  • Russia’s beleaguered space science program is hoping for a rare triumph this month.
    — Daniel Clery, Science | AAAS, 15 July 2019
  • On it, bursts of energy are beleaguered by sleep, and lullabylike passages are interspersed with wails of joy.
    — Emma Madden, Vulture, 10 Apr. 2023
  • Still, many states’ systems were beleaguered with payout delays that continue today.
    — Jacqueline Munis, Fortune, 9 Mar. 2026
  • Little wonder Europe’s beleaguered social democrats are beating down his door.
    — The Economist, 12 Apr. 2018
  • Despite the offense’s productivity, the team was beleaguered by slow starts.
    — Edward Lee, baltimoresun.com, 6 June 2018
  • Police fired tear gas and made several arrests, and the city’s beleaguered subway operator closed more than two dozen stations.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 14 Oct. 2019
  • Many Indians obeyed the rules, wary of catching the virus and not trusting India’s beleaguered health care system to save them.
    — New York Times, 6 May 2020
  • In Georgia, chicken farmers are beleaguered by bedbugs, which have hopped from hotel rooms to poultry farms, and from there to workers’ homes.
    — Burkhard Bilger, New Yorker, 29 June 2026
  • The Giants, beleaguered after their first five games, remain undefeated since then.
    — Bill Pennington, New York Times, 20 Nov. 2016
  • The move comes as the carrier has been beleaguered by a wave of negative press since a passenger was bloodied and dragged off one its flights on April 9.
    — Ben Mutzabaugh, USA TODAY, 27 Apr. 2017
  • The gig plays to her strengths, while her tenure as Kohl's CEO was rockier and beleaguered by activists.
    — Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 9 Apr. 2026
  • On Tuesday, Midwestern states were beleaguered by strong winds, storms, reports of tornadoes and hail.
    — Marlene Lenthang, NBC news, 11 Mar. 2026
  • The show also explores what’s next for Florida’s beleaguered guardianship program.
    — Hal Boedeker, orlandosentinel.com, 9 Oct. 2019
  • The disease also threatens the fragile political turmoil that has beleaguered the country for almost six years.
    — Fox News, 20 Mar. 2020
  • Houston’s beleaguered offensive line didn’t allow a sack on Sunday after giving up 18 through the first four games.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Oct. 2019
  • More than one of four state legislators also own multiple units or properties, putting them further out of step with constituents beleaguered by the cost and scarcity of homes.
    — Matt Stout, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Apr. 2023
  • His ninth-inning homer off Matt Grace capped an 11-run barrage for the Cubs against the Nationals’ beleaguered bullpen.
    — Greg Swatek, The Seattle Times, 18 May 2019
  • This spring, graduates are leaving their respective alma maters and entering a job market that is beleaguered with uncertainty.
    — Adam Harris, The Atlantic, 21 May 2026
  • These are dispatches from the front lines of America’s beleaguered social service system, which strains to care for millions of vulnerable people in the best of times.
    — Joaquin Sapien, ProPublica, 21 Mar. 2020
  • Those who live in the 1mpact House are among certain groups of students at UC who will be particularly beleaguered by the order to leave campus.
    — Max Londberg, Cincinnati.com, 17 Mar. 2020
  • The Sooners’ beleaguered defense held Kansas to second-quarter field goal and 155 yards of total offense.
    — John Shinn, ajc, 18 Nov. 2017
  • But the temporary plug for the Comey testimony still leaves the messaging problems that have beleaguered the White House for months unsolved.
    — Jeremy Diamond and Sara Murray, CNN, 6 June 2017
  • Meanwhile, Mono Lake, beleaguered by three years of drought, is expected to rise by several feet, a welcome reprieve as the lake has struggled to reach target levels.
    — Evan Bush, NBC News, 6 June 2023
  • The 2019 season, led by Colton Underwood, was beleaguered by pageant infighting.
    — Ariana Romero, refinery29.com, 5 Feb. 2020
  • The fifty-three artists in the show are all living and working in New York (though of vastly varied origins); many of them are young, doing their best in a city that seems to valorize yet beleaguer youth.
    — Zoë Hopkins, New Yorker, 29 May 2026
  • In his victory speech Sunday night, Robert Abela didn’t assess Muscat’s beleaguered final stretch in office.
    — Washington Post, 12 Jan. 2020

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