How to Use siege mentality in a Sentence

siege mentality

noun
  • Living in a high-crime area can create a siege mentality.
  • At best, Farke is going to foster a siege mentality among these wingers.
    — Beren Cross, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2025
  • That has fostered not only a type of siege mentality but also frequent bouts of bad blood.
    — New York Times, 13 May 2022
  • The shirts, born, in some cases, from a siege mentality, represent our past.
    — Georgea Kovanis, Detroit Free Press, 12 Sep. 2017
  • Who but a small minority would want to organize life around a siege mentality?
    — Renee Diresta, WIRED, 28 July 2019
  • Cities may adopt a siege mentality to the environment while being deeply reliant upon it for survival.
    — Darran Anderson, The Atlantic, 24 Aug. 2020
  • The siege mentality is exploited and fanned by the authorities.
    — The Economist, 14 Dec. 2017
  • For some career professionals, a siege mentality has taken hold.
    — Sharon Lafraniere, Katie Benner and Peter Baker, New York Times, 3 Feb. 2018
  • But this siege mentality breeds suspicion of outsiders and a defensiveness toward the world.
    — Peter Wehner, The Atlantic, 10 June 2026
  • Amid a rash of brazen burglaries this year, some San Francisco residents are adopting a siege mentality.
    — Anna Buchmann, SFChronicle.com, 24 Dec. 2020
  • Amid a rash of burglaries this year — brazen, sometimes shockingly crafty invasions — residents are adopting a siege mentality.
    — Megan Cassidy, SFChronicle.com, 24 Dec. 2020
  • Overwhelmed by overcommitment syndrome and overcome by siege mentality, some people burn out, blame the organization, and then leave.
    — Bruce Tulgan, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Jewish Caricatures The attacks have also brought out a siege mentality among some of his most ardent supporters.
    — Thomas Penny, Bloomberg.com, 4 Apr. 2018
  • Rather than dwell on the unrest and surrender to a siege mentality, Afghans attempt to create a semblance of stability by devoting their attention to the day at hand.
    — Martin Kuz, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 Apr. 2020
  • Ultimately, siege mentality sets in.
    — Bruce Tulgan, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Iran’s securitization has created a siege mentality, which often leads to the imposition of tighter social controls.
    — Mohammad Javad Zarif, Foreign Affairs, 22 Dec. 2025
  • And as the mask of neutrality slips, a siege mentality is taking hold, signaling a return to the early days of explicitly partisan and ideological policing.
    — Sam Adler-Bell, The New Republic, 20 Oct. 2020
  • With prominent First Amendment lawyers declaring that Dominion had an exceptionally strong case, a siege mentality appeared to set in.
    — Jeremy W. Peters, New York Times, 27 May 2023
  • This siege mentality defines The Audacity.
    — Judy Berman, Time, 10 Apr. 2026
  • This siege mentality defines The Audacity.
    — Judy Berman, Time, 30 Apr. 2026
  • Looking back, a corporate siege mentality and poor training contributed to serious mistakes in judgment, said another former Uber executive from this era.
    — Joseph Menn, Washington Post, 6 July 2015
  • The new revelations remind us of the academic squabbling, pettiness, and biases that pervade many areas of science, and the existence of a siege mentality among some of the top echelons that works to paper over differences and uncertainties.
    — Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 25 Nov. 2011
  • Maxwell and Shields have a good appreciation for the psyche of bitter white Southerners — formed by defeat in the Civil War and nurtured by a siege mentality in which the enemy became the federal government.
    — Curtis Wilkie, Washington Post, 16 Aug. 2019
  • Among academy leaders who have been buffeted by nearly nonstop controversy and uncomfortable scrutiny since the #OscarSoWhite firestorm erupted in 2015, a sort of siege mentality has taken hold.
    — Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 30 Mar. 2022

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