Example sentences for: besieged

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

  • I frankly don't know what to make of Besieged , which attempts to forge a complicated relationship between its protagonists through "pure cinema," and has won admiration for being allusive, elusive, elliptical, and other words that begin with "a" and "e" (enigmatic, ambivalent, evocative, etc.).

  • Six years later he besieged Vienna for 24 days (unsuccessfully) before going on to take most of Hungary.

  • At first ill fortune dogged them; the dwindling force was besieged in Champotón, on the west coast, for two miserable years.

  • An admiring article on Israel's new Labor leader, Ehud Barak, speculates that the besieged Likud government is headed for more trouble and may turn to Barak for support.

  • What are the odds that an 11-year-old girl who has been cut from the school gym team would, upon finding herself besieged by velociraptors in an abandoned dinosaur-breeding station, happen to be standing under a pair of handy parallel bars?


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