Example sentences for: besieged

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

  • In contrast, Bernardo Bertolucci's Besieged , from a script that the director wrote with Clare Peploe, has no narration and little dialogue: The intent is to keep the audience disoriented.

  • 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.).

  • Didn't Boutros-Ghali earn Rieff's undying scorn when he told the besieged Sarajevans he could name 10 places in the world where things were worse?

  • Le Figaro also said that to think the Serbs would now desert their leader showed "a deep misunderstanding of the psychology of a people which considers itself persecuted and besieged."

  • Clinton's recent visit marked the final straw for a quiet community besieged by rich and gaudy outsiders.


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