How to Use beset in a Sentence

beset

verb
  • A lack of money is the greatest problem besetting the city today.
  • Even the walk from the front door to the gutter is beset with peril.
    — Karen Russell, The New Yorker, 4 June 2017
  • Polling has been beset by a host of challenges during the past few years.
    — Maria Eloisa Capurro, Bloomberg.com, 18 Nov. 2020
  • Yet the project has been beset with delays and mounting costs.
    — Corinne Purtill, Los Angeles Times, 6 Mar. 2024
  • Kela has been beset with biceps tendonitis off and on for the past five weeks.
    — Stefan Stevenson, star-telegram.com, 1 July 2017
  • Over the years it has been beset by leaks, mold and issues with its facade.
    — orlandosentinel.com, 10 July 2021
  • Indeed, finance takes place in a world beset by change.
    — John Werner, Forbes.com, 14 June 2026
  • Fruit pies are always beset with problems.
    — Bon Appétit, Bon Appetit Magazine, 6 Aug. 2025
  • Darnold has had to break in a new receiving group that has been beset by injuries.
    — Zach Helfand, latimes.com, 9 Oct. 2017
  • To be sure, the work has been long and tedious, beset by setbacks at every turn.
    — John Gallagher, Freep.com, 19 Dec. 2019
  • But the new approach is already beset by tensions.
    — Yinka Adegoke, semafor.com, 18 Mar. 2026
  • Many hundreds of fires burned just on that one night, in this borough which had been beset by fires for the past nine years.
    — Ian Frazier, The New Yorker, 15 July 2024
  • The museum has been beset by delays, partly due to the drop in oil prices.
    — Bloomberg.com, 7 Sep. 2017
  • Credit Suisse has been beset by a litany of scandals over the past few years.
    — Siladitya Ray, Forbes, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Climate change, Covid and the threat of war may beset Gen Zers.
    — New York Times, 28 Apr. 2022
  • The fund was also beset by massive amounts of fraud that cost the state billions of dollars.
    — Adam Beam, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2023
  • The bank was tightly linked to the tech industry, which is beset by layoffs.
    — Ellen Francis, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Mar. 2023
  • But the app was beset by fraud, an ubiquitous threat in the crypto universe.
    — Aaron Pressman, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Dec. 2022
  • The Dolphins have been beset by their softness on defense on third down.
    — Steve Svekis, sun-sentinel.com, 3 Oct. 2021
  • If the journey to this point was beset by change, scheduling changes added to the story.
    — Stewart Clarke, Deadline, 11 Oct. 2025
  • It is hoped none has the problems that beset the apartments on Sycamore Drive.
    — Jerry Shnay, Chicago Tribune, 14 July 2025
  • But the project has been beset by right-of-way and historic preservation issues.
    — Alan Gionet, CBS News, 31 Dec. 2025
  • On the day that Charlie was buried, the church and the graveyard were beset by reporters.
    — Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2023
  • From the start, the reform process was beset by dissent and infighting.
    — Los Angeles Times, 5 Aug. 2021
  • The overland route to the southern peninsula is beset by gangs.
    — Chris Kenning, The Courier-Journal, 20 Aug. 2021
  • Maybe she is beset by need to copulate, by the desire of the eggs inside her for their own plot of land.
    — María Ospina, The Dial, 31 Mar. 2026
  • The region was already beset by more than a decade of civil war in Syria.
    — Mehmet Guzel, Ghaith Alsayed and Suzan Fraser, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Feb. 2023
  • Thinking back to the origins of the pandemic in March, we were beset by fear.
    — Mona Charen, Star Tribune, 20 Oct. 2020
  • In the weeks leading up to this, however, I had been beset by migraines.
    — David Freyne, Time, 7 Dec. 2025
  • The Seahawks running backs have been beset by injuries for the past two seasons.
    — Geoffrey C. Arnold, OregonLive.com, 13 Mar. 2018

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