How to Use harass in a Sentence

harass

verb
  • He claims that he is being unfairly harassed by the police.
  • She was constantly harassed by the other students.
  • She was stalked and harassed and blamed her ex.
    — Tim Stelloh, NBC news, 1 May 2026
  • One in six says staff have been harassed in church.
    — Ed Gaskin, Boston Herald, 29 Mar. 2026
  • The issue is the four men who tried to harass him.
    — Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2026
  • Ibrahim comes and sits next to me and harasses me.
    — Tal Shalev, CNN Money, 4 Jan. 2026
  • Do not provoke or harass a shark, even a small one.
    — ABC News, 26 May 2026
  • Mejia was scared more people would come in to harass them — or worse.
    — Ben Goggin, NBC News, 19 Aug. 2022
  • One is to harass or attack ships, and the other is to lay down mines.
    — Joe Walsh, CBS News, 3 Mar. 2026
  • Women were harassed two times more than men, the data showed.
    — Tatiana Sanchez, SFChronicle.com, 29 Apr. 2020
  • And sure enough, that account had been harassing a six-year-old girl.
    — Lyz Lenz, Rolling Stone, 28 May 2026
  • Court records show he was charged with harassing phone calls and written threats to cause harm.
    — Samira Asma-Sadeque, Peoplemag, 1 Dec. 2023
  • And people aren’t going to pay that kind of money just to harass me.
    — Mary Colurso | [email protected], al, 10 May 2022
  • For more than a year, a Michigan teenager was harassed via text.
    — EW.com, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Kruitbosch told her to stop harassing him.
    — Dan Eaton, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Sep. 2025
  • At full strength, the Seahawks can harass passers at a high level.
    — Michael-Shawn Dugar, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Staff have been harassed or had their tips stolen on a weekly basis, White said.
    — Jenna Thompson, Kansas City Star, 18 Mar. 2025
  • John was found guilty of harassing an ex-girlfriend later that same year.
    — Emily Blackwood, PEOPLE, 28 June 2026
  • There were no school uniforms, and the gang members on campus didn’t harass him.
    — New York Times, 28 Apr. 2022
  • Bieber asked her fans to stop harassing people, once and for all, in her full statement.
    — Alyssa Bailey, ELLE, 13 June 2023
  • In the real world, this won’t happen, but the agents will harass the middle class.
    — Steve Forbes, Forbes, 29 June 2021
  • Fans harassed him, slamming their fists on his office door, trying to catch a glimpse.
    — Jay Deitcher, Rolling Stone, 2 July 2024
  • The man walked away, but Thompson followed and harassed him, deputies say.
    — Milena Malaver, Miami Herald, 12 June 2026
  • She was also ordered not to harass or attempt to make contact with him in any way.
    — Christina Dugan Ramirez, FOXNews.com, 7 Apr. 2026
  • But Netflix kept harassing us about it.
    — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 16 Oct. 2025
  • She was also ordered not to harass or attempt to make contact with him in any way.
    — Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 1 Apr. 2026
  • She was also ordered not to harass or attempt to make contact with him in any way.
    — Christina Dugan Ramirez, FOXNews.com, 3 Apr. 2026
  • Dick was also ordered not to harass or attempt to make contact with him in any way.
    — Senior Television, Los Angeles Times, 12 Apr. 2026
  • And these trolls came on to those pages and started to harass the family members.
    — CBS News, 1 June 2022
  • Well the couple that planned and attacked me in the workplace were in fact harassing me.
    — Marni Rose McFall, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Dec. 2025

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