Example sentences for: beleaguered

How can you use “beleaguered” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Washington's new mayor, Anthony A. Williams, wants to move the beleaguered University of the District of Columbia from its affluent Northwest Washington digs to Anacostia, the District's poorest and most isolated area.

  • They featured the grind and humiliation of lower-middle-class family life, and they centered not on the children Bart, Lisa, and Maggie but on the beleaguered patriarch Homer.

  • Just a daunting caseload and beleaguered, frightened clients.

  • By 1990, beleaguered by personal and financial scandals in the administration, PASOK was defeated at the polls after three rounds of voting, by the conservative New Democracy Party; Constantine Mitsotákis became the new prime minister.

  • His efforts have not boosted test scores as much as had been promised, but modest improvements and Crew's political clout make him the beleaguered system's most impressive chief in decades.


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