Sentence example with the word 'beleaguer'

beleaguer

annoy, box in, coop, encircle, gnaw, impound, kennel, pen in, shrine, storm, yard up

Definition v. annoy persistently

Last update: November 8, 2018


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Seize them, beleaguer them, and lie in wait for them in every stratagem of war.   [noun]

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The school bully will often beleaguer the smaller kids.   [verb]

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You saved us before Bull Run when we were beleaguered at a fort in the Valley.   [Please select]

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At sight of this most timely reinforcement, the beleaguered raccoon made a sortie.   [Please select]

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But the beleaguered garrison had not yet yielded, but armed themselves and set an ambush.   [Please select]

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And so, like a silent watch word, these gesticulations made the round of the beleaguered garden.   [Please select]

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If the Texans know that we are beleaguered here they will come to our help.   [Please select]

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They could see the beleaguered tower perfectly, brown and warm-looking in the sun; below it, still smoking, the village of Chaluz, a heap of charred brickwork.   [verb]

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Message after message came in from beleaguered Joppa; but King Richard paid little heed to them, pending the issue of new treating with Saladin.   [verb]

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A beleaguered Sebastopol may explain its wants to the relieving army beyond the line of the Chernaya, by the lispings of its short Paixhans and its long twenty-fours.   [verb]

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It might do in marching to relieve a beleaguered garrison, but not to make an assault.   [Please select]

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