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Example sentences for: hemmed

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Hemmed in between the Apennine mountains and the sea, for centuries Genoa tended, like historic rival Venice on the east coast, to turn its back on Italy and seek its fortune on the high seas.
Critics heap praise on O'Nan's latest, the gruesome tale of a man who returns to Wisconsin after the Civil War to find his hometown engulfed by a diphtheria epidemic and hemmed in at the edges by wildfires.
The eastern end of the beach is a beautiful cove, hemmed in by cliffs and ochre rocks.
Unknown to the public, King was also hemmed in by blackmail threats from the FBI.
Hemmed into a narrow coastal strip between the Rokko Mountains and the Inland Sea, this port city came into its own after American pressure forced Japan to open to foreign trade in 1868.