Sample Sentences forbeleaguered (auto-selected)
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You know well the recent history of this beleaguered country.† (source)
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There followed a brief rustling, a moment of silence, and a beleaguered call to come in.† (source)
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Two hundred years later, they were joined by runaway slaves, who escaped into the marsh and were called maroons, and freed slaves, penniless and beleaguered, who dispersed into the water-land because of scant options.† (source)
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As days turned into weeks, there was now, if nothing else, a beleaguered acceptance of what had transpired—all the result of war, a promise keeper, and one piano accordion.† (source)
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For five days he hears nothing on his transceiver but anthems and recorded propaganda and broadcasts from beleaguered colonels requesting supplies, gasoline, men.† (source)
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Weeks before, Ramiro had received a 10 day suspension from Roberto Clemente High School, a beleaguered school with a good number of caring personnel, but one which was an epicenter of gang activity.† (source)
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And as for why I stay here—well, I've read a good deal about sieges, beleaguered cities and the like, but I've never seen one.† (source)
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The numerous islands rested on the bosom of the Horican, some low and sunken, as if embedded in the waters, and others appearing to hover about the element, in little hillocks of green velvet; among which the fishermen of the beleaguering army peacefully rowed their skiffs, or floated at rest on the glassy mirror in quiet pursuit of their employment.† (source)
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Ishmael would find later, long after the trial, that their darkness would beleaguer his memory of these days.† (source)
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His hand and watchful eye keep even pace; While Dares traverses and shifts his place, And, like a captain who beleaguers round Some strong-built castle on a rising ground, Views all th' approaches with observing eyes: This and that other part in vain he tries, And more on industry than force relies.† (source)
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Around the beleaguered Four Courts the heavy guns roared.† (source)
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This is the first instance I've had of feeling my age, which does not seem so beleaguering a notion but rather a strangely comforting one, as if a voice inside me is trying to proclaim, I accept.† (source)
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These even tried to beleaguer the town so that the townspeople locked the gates of the wall continually except for one small gate called the western water gate, and this was watched by soldiers and locked at night also.† (source)
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"You're back," he said with a beleaguered sigh.† (source)
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There is a force without beleaguering this accursed castle—hasten to lead them to the attack, and when thou shalt see a red flag wave from the turret on the eastern angle of the donjon, press the Normans hard—they will then have enough to do within, and you may win the wall in spite both of bow and mangonel.† (source)
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Of all who came here to beleaguer Troy I say there is no soldier worse than you.† (source)
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