Example sentences for: beset

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

  • pieces paint Deng as a hard-nosed pragmatist and marvel at China's economic growth, but caution that the country is still beset by poverty, corruption, pollution, etc.

  • News and World Report , say, tell the Baltimore Sun that for a guy who's been marinated in money, Dubya seems particularly beset by plural articles and singular verbs.

  • In the same year, hatred of the high-handed Tory oligarchy in Upper Canada provoked a rebellion among small farmers and tradesmen beset by economic depression.

  • In both revised scenes, Washington is still a nasty place, and Reich still shines as a perennially beset paragon of decency.

  • The Balearics, further neglected, were beset with poverty and outbreaks of disease.


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