How to Use besiege in a Sentence

besiege

verb
  • Customers have besieged the company with questions.
  • Hetfield said from a small stage besieged by the crowd on the field.
    — Dylan Owens, The Know, 8 June 2017
  • Soup kitchens and food banks across the country are besieged by the hungry.
    — Michael Greenberg, The New York Review of Books, 16 Apr. 2020
  • But Arnold reached Quebec with enough men to besiege the city.
    — William Anthony Hay, WSJ, 24 May 2018
  • But the retreat is anything but peaceful, as the place is soon besieged by a plague of mice.
    — Sophia Nguyen, Washington Post, 30 July 2024
  • Yet the beast was besieged, covered by hundreds of feasting ticks of all life-stages.
    — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 8 Aug. 2018
  • From the start, her neat, poppy melody is besieged by distortion.
    — Jon Pareles, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2020
  • The last aid convoy came in February and the camp is besieged on all sides.
    — Josh Rogin, The Denver Post, 24 July 2019
  • Over the years, we were constantly besieged with inquiries.
    — Gillian Telling, PEOPLE, 19 May 2026
  • She has been besieged by hustlers claiming to know her daughter or even to be her daughter.
    — Ashley Luthern, Journal Sentinel, 31 May 2023
  • Vikings quarterbacks have been besieged by injury this year.
    — Jordan Sigler, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Nov. 2025
  • This makes sense since he would likely be besieged by lawsuits if the surplus were given to him.
    — Adrianne Jeffries, The Verge, 22 Mar. 2018
  • One Sunday card was besieged by rain with everything off the turf.
    — John Cherwa, latimes.com, 19 Oct. 2017
  • The militants at the time besieged it for months before being pushed back.
    — Arkansas Online, 23 Jan. 2026
  • Police have been besieged and outnumbered to combat the armed gangs.
    — CBS News, 16 Mar. 2024
  • Murkowski was just one of dozens of officials whom Stimpfle besieged.
    — Ian Frazier, New Yorker, 19 Jan. 2026
  • In the adjacent room, the Shapiro team was equally besieged.
    — Victoria Gomelsky, Robb Report, 17 June 2026
  • Israel’s forces even besieged the capital Beirut for two months.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 11 Oct. 2023
  • Boston was besieged by the Tartan Army.
    — Becky Sullivan, NPR, 28 June 2026
  • The episode has inflamed a major health system that has been besieged by the coronavirus.
    — New York Times, 2 Apr. 2020
  • Jarrett, 41, has been besieged with love from family and friends.
    — Perry A. Farrell, Detroit Free Press, 20 Oct. 2017
  • The deadly fire is a heartbreaking ending to a life besieged by challenges.
    — Sam Gillette, People.com, 4 June 2025
  • Early on, the Biden team had been besieged with desperate pleas to ship more of the then scarce vaccine.
    — David Blumenthal, STAT, 24 Mar. 2026
  • The French champions will have to rely on the strength of their squad depth as they are besieged by absences.
    — SI.com, 26 Aug. 2019
  • In the north and east, major cities—including Kyiv and Kharkiv—were besieged.
    — Hal Brands, Foreign Affairs, 14 Feb. 2023
  • The film also shows how besieged the couple was by the paparazzi, at a turning point in celebrity culture.
    — Caryn James, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 May 2024
  • Angry crowds and farmers on tractors besieged the Fed; the keys to cars that dealers could not sell were sent to him in the mail.
    — The Economist, 12 Dec. 2019
  • In Gaza, bombed and besieged for the past month, clean water is in critically short supply.
    — WSJ, 7 Nov. 2023
  • Experts say Russia may try to besiege Ukrainian forces by linking its troops in the north and the south.
    — Washington Post, 15 Apr. 2022
  • If your flower beds were besieged with pests or fungal diseases, the fallen leaf litter and stems from those plants should not be left in the garden.
    — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 4 Oct. 2025

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