Sample Sentences for
besiege
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    Grant was besieged with requests for interviews, lectures, books.  (source)
    besieged = overwhelmed
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    He managed to stay out of the limelight until the morning of Halliday's death, when his home was besieged by the media.  (source)
    besieged = surrounded
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    She did not have a chance to respond, because we were at her house, and she was more interested in besieging her father with questions.  (source)
    besieging = making an overwhelming number of requests
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    Everybody knew, for instance, that Harry and Marietta were the only students to have witnessed the scene in Dumbledore's office and, as Marietta was now in the hospital wing, Harry found himself besieged with requests to give a first-hand account.  (source)
    besieged = overwhelmed
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    All round this they had cleared a wide space, and then the thing was completed by a paling six feet high, without door or opening, too strong to pull down without time and labour and too open to shelter the besiegers.†  (source)
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    She was watching him proudly from the far end of the salon, where a court of admirers had surrounded her, besieging her with questions about her part in the revolution.†  (source)
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    There is no other way to besiege Riverrun, yet still, that will be their undoing.†  (source)
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    Jurgis became once more a besieger of factory gates.†  (source)
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    Sir, she said, this knight is going to the siege that besiegeth my sister in the Castle Dangerous.†  (source)
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-th" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She besiegeth" in older English, today we say "She besieges."
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    For three hours, Watanabe besieged Bush, kicking him and hacking off his hair with his sword.  (source)
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    Actually more than 500 Swiss guards had been slaughtered, and at least 400 of the besiegers.†  (source)
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    True, the Yankees under Grant had been besieging Vicksburg since the middle of May.†  (source)
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    Adah the Poor Thing, hemiplegious egregious besiege us.†  (source)
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