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Example sentences for: siege

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At number 9 you can descend deep into the hill via a series of tunnels that were dug in medieval times as an escape route in times of siege.
"Can Mr Hun Sen now justifiably refuse to hand them over to an international tribunal, particularly at a time when war criminals from the former Yugoslavia have been indicted and former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet is under siege?"
They then set their sights on the islands of the Knights of St. John and, after an unsuccessful siege in 1480, they finally ejected the knights from the Dodecanese in 1522.
The Rome newspaper La Repubblica accused Germany of breaking European Union accords, with the result that "the whole territory of Germany is in a state of siege by the Kurd intifada."
In 1727, they failed in a siege, and in 1779 combined Spanish and French forces totaling 50,000 laid the final Great Siege against just 5,000 defenders.