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Example sentences for "beleaguer"

Lexicographically close words:
belches; belching; beldam; beldame; bele; beleaguered; beleaguering; beleagured; beleave; beleefe
  1. So ours shall be The sufferance, perishing in our native home, If for long season they beleaguer us.

  2. I have read, in the marvellous heart of man, That strange and mystic scroll, That an army of phantoms vast and wan Beleaguer the human soul.

  3. Then the Emperor Regnier determined, since he could not take the place by assault, to beleaguer it, and starve the town into surrender.

  4. Innumerable squalid women beleaguer the President and Deputation; insist on going with him: has not his Majesty himself, looking from the window, sent out to ask, What we wanted?

  5. Preparations were made to beleaguer the city at once.

  6. Levi followed up his success vigorously, and as soon as the ice left the St. Lawrence he brought up six French frigates and prepared to beleaguer the city by land and by water.

  7. For the Roundheads from Kendal beleaguer Holm-Isle.

  8. He must certainly be at Holbek castle, or at Samsoee--Will you promise me so long to delay every compulsory measure, and at the utmost only to beleaguer the castle?

  9. You or Sir Ribolt are to beleaguer Holbek castle, and join the king before Kallundborg with a hundred lancers.

  10. Before thou canst again be a true Ari-El I must beleaguer thee like David.

  11. Before God can make her in truth His own, make her verify her name, He will have to beleaguer and reduce her.


  12. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "beleaguer" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    annoy; attack; beleaguer; beset; besiege; blockade; bound; cage; compass; contain; coop; cordon; corral; dun; encircle; enclose; encompass; enshrine; envelop; gaol; gnaw; harass; house; impound; imprison; incarcerate; include; invest; jail; kennel; molest; pen; pester; plague; pocket; quarantine; rack; siege; stable; surround; tantalize; tease; worry; wrap; yard