Example sentences for: sieges

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

  • Long, devastating sieges were laid to both Buda and Pest and, when finally liberated in 1686, the cities once again lay in ruins.

  • After the recovery of Jerusalem in 1099, it took four hundred years of sieges and battles, treaties, betrayals, and yet more battles, before Christian kings and warlords succeeded in subduing the Moors.

  • On the estuary, the peaceful town of Annapolis Royal was once the beleaguered target of 14 British and French sieges and countless pirate raids.


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