How to Use harry in a Sentence

harry

verb
  • She, too, was harried and didn’t devote enough time to self-care.
    — Literary Hub, 9 Apr. 2026
  • There is a lot of work to do, but Hurley does not sound stressed or harried as in years past.
    — Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 15 Apr. 2026
  • His voice was deep if slightly harried, and his face impassive.
    — The Economist, 11 Oct. 2019
  • The middle daughter harried me with it every day, all the way back to the Cities.
    — Bulletin Board, Twin Cities, 13 Oct. 2019
  • The sheer number of drones that harried the tank speaks to the abundance of tiny flying robots over the front line.
    — David Axe, Forbes, 16 Jan. 2025
  • Her steps were harried—just another thing surging at me before my thoughts could dust on my mind’s floor.
    — Literary Hub, 27 Mar. 2026
  • Before that pass, the 49ers harried Mahomes as few teams have.
    — Kevin Draper, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2020
  • He was dogged in his defending of Farrell, harrying him around the court.
    — Jeff Greer, The Courier-Journal, 16 Jan. 2018
  • Doctors and nurses stepped over legs and bodies, the nurses harried and short-tempered.
    — Lynn Freed, Harper's magazine, 10 Mar. 2019
  • Bournemouth’s back line harried and crowded Isak, who was so often left isolated by his team-mates.
    — Chris Waugh, The Athletic, 18 Jan. 2025
  • Initiatives to protect older adults at risk of falling have been harried.
    — Amy Maxmen, ABC News, 5 Nov. 2025
  • Patients arrived with gangrenous foot wounds that harried providers elsewhere brushed off as athlete’s foot.
    — Los Angeles Times, 14 June 2026
  • In the 79th minute, Duah was harried into an errant pass.
    — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Dec. 2025
  • But you people harried her and condescended to her and insulted her and never gave her the time of day.
    — George Saunders, The Atlantic, 14 Feb. 2025
  • Bullets, bombs and electronic warfare harry both man and machine.
    — Colin Demarest, Axios, 5 Mar. 2025
  • Mehsud’s fellow Pushtuns, who say the police have been harrying them for years, held protest marches.
    — The Economist, 8 Mar. 2018
  • This is supposed to be the age of the universal player, in which even goalscorers press and tackle and hassle and harry.
    — Jonathan Wilson, SI.com, 3 June 2017
  • Bergman appeared, looking harried.
    — Anna Russell, New Yorker, 10 Nov. 2025
  • But as for conscious thought in the brain, that harried pace of information exchange slows to a relative crawl.
    — Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Dec. 2024
  • He was relieved when Fatima called her father to come pick them up, as the sun sank in the sky and the wind harried the trees on the seafront.
    — Sarah Dadouch, Washington Post, 5 Oct. 2023
  • Teams which are not particularly easy on the eye, but sides that get the job done; a group of players who hustle, harry, work hard and dig in.
    — SI.com, 14 Mar. 2018
  • The players worked tirelessly to harry Leicester and limit their chances.
    — SI.com, 5 Oct. 2019
  • Josh Rosen was sacked four times in Miami’s first 11 plays and often harried after that.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Oct. 2019
  • Carmy, Sydney, and the gang are still justifiably harried throughout.
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 19 June 2023
  • Servers in the very busy Studio Bar at cocktail hour were attentive, if harried at times, and the bartenders mix great drinks.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 May 2026
  • Rebel groups had continued to harry government forces, however, from outside the city with mortar rounds.
    — Sarah El Deeb, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Feb. 2020
  • The lead-up to Friday’s layoffs was drawn out and harried, according to the former employees.
    — Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 2 Mar. 2025
  • Your father strides into the dining room, harried, shiny black hair parted to one side, his fingers buttoning the cuffs of his starched white collared shirt.
    — Literary Hub, 25 June 2026
  • Indiana pounded the paint early, bossed Michigan State on the boards and harried every screen.
    — Zach Osterman, Indianapolis Star, 24 Jan. 2020
  • Ramey built his reputation as a pass-first point guard with dizzying speed and quickness that helps him harry opposing guards on the defensive end.
    — Jeff Greer, The Courier-Journal, 15 July 2017

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