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troubled — especially when surrounded by enemy forces- hope in the beleaguered city
- The beleaguered country asked for increased aid.
- The beleaguered company is likely to declare bankruptcy.
- I think it is for the best God alone knows the fate of our own beleaguered currency.Khaled Hosseini -- A Thousand Splendid Suns
- As these beleaguered adults approach, the uniformed sons and daughters whose pursuit of soccer has inspired their expeditions are nowhere to be seen.Warren St. John -- Outcasts United
- LAURA: Oh— JIM [with reflective relish]: I was beleaguered by females in those days.Tennessee Williams -- The Glass Menagerie
- Meanwhile, the lord of the beleaguered and endangered castle lay upon a bed of bodily pain and mental agony.Sir Walter Scott -- Ivanhoe
- The helicopter came lower and lower: the concern of the pilot grew, the closer he drew to my beleaguered craft.Pat Conroy -- The Water is Wide
- The thing he'd most detest is being cut off from others; he'd rather be one of a beleaguered crowd than a prisoner alone.Albert Camus -- The Plague
- These measures taken altogether did do something: they were in fact of the nature of regulations made by the commander of a beleaguered city.William Morris -- News from Nowhere
- "You're back," he said with a beleaguered sigh.Ransom Riggs -- Hollow City
- And now a beleaguered Seattle must face the possibility that it could be harboring an even more horrifying monster at this very moment.Stephenie Meyer -- Eclipse
- He had always known that humans were scarce and beleaguered in Alagaesia, but he had never imagined that they were so outnumbered by evenbeetles.Christopher Paolini -- Eldest
- Both he and Angela looked beleaguered, and Eragon doubted they would be able to hold out much longer.Christopher Paolini -- Inheritance
- Again Roberta was checked by these unanswerable complexities which beleaguered them both and she exclaimed futilely, "Oh, I wish I knew what to do."Theodore Dreiser -- An American Tragedy
- A beleaguered sprite was sheltering behind her ticket desk, besieged by angry gremlins.Eoin Colfer -- Artemis Fowl
- We receive word from them rarely, but there have been reports that they are also beleaguered.Christopher Paolini -- Eragon
- The beleaguered rider could do no better than cling to the horse's neck for dear life.Laura Hillenbrand -- Seabiscuit
- The light was more dim than ever as they drew nearer to the beleaguered city, and the Riders passed in long files like dark shadows of men and horses.J.R.R. Tolkien -- The Return of the King
- You know well the recent history of this beleaguered country.Khaled Hosseini -- And The Mountains Echoed