Example sentences for: besieged

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

  • Besieged with information and short on time, what is a person to do?

  • 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?

  • Besieged , a film that combines a stunning sensuality with a rigorous economy, you know that you're in the hands of a filmmaker who trusts in the storytelling power of the camera," writes Kevin Thomas in the Los Angeles Times . "Besieged is a thrilling reminder of what moving, personal art the director of The Conformist and The Last Emperor can make when inspired by the right material," says Entertainment Weekly 's Lisa Schwarzbaum.

  • In a 1985 study, journalist Charles Silberman recounted how the writer Anne Roiphe, besieged with angry letters after she wrote an article about celebrating Christmas as a Jew, switched to observing Hanukkah and found it far more meaningful.

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


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