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Example sentences for "besetment"

Lexicographically close words:
beseems; beseen; beseiged; beseik; beset; besets; besett; besette; besetting; besh
  1. It set forth Franklin's discoveries around Cornwallis Land, the wintering at Beechey Island, and the besetment and wintering in the pack of the Erebus and Terror in 70 deg.

  2. After a besetment of eight months and nine days, in which she drifted twelve hundred miles to the south, the yacht escaped, buffeted, racked, and leaking.

  3. For since he had come out of prison he was every day more subject to this besetment of recalling the past.

  4. Alston had a vague uncomfortable besetment that his mother would have had a warmer hope for him if he had been tempted of demons, tortured by doubts.

  5. From that time she steadily fought against her deadly sin, until its besetment lost all power over her.

  6. After a besetment of twenty-four days, Iberville succeeded in extricating his vessel from the ice and passed into the bay.


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    Other words:
    ado; annoyance; anxiety; blockade; bother; circumscription; confinement; disadvantage; envelopment; evil; exasperation; headache; imprisonment; incarceration; inclusion; inconvenience; matter; nuisance; pest; pester; placid; problem; quarantine; siege; trouble; worry