How to Use beset in a Sentence

beset

verb
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  • A lack of money is the greatest problem besetting the city today.
  • Many hundreds of fires burned just on that one night, in this borough which had been beset by fires for the past nine years.
    — Ian Frazier, The New Yorker, 15 July 2024
  • Bates inherited an office beset by staffing problems when he was sworn in last year.
    — Madeleine O'Neill, Baltimore Sun, 30 Apr. 2024
  • The encampment was beset by fires and other safety hazards, officials said.
    — Ethan Varian, The Mercury News, 10 Apr. 2024
  • Animals have long been beset by not only human cruelty but also human hypocrisy.
    — Ben Goldfarb, The Atlantic, 18 Apr. 2024
  • No small amount of bad press has beset San Francisco in recent years, often on themes of crime and homelessness.
    — Christopher Goffard, Los Angeles Times, 4 May 2024
  • He had been diagnosed with a brain tumor in ‘43 but refused surgery and played his last four seasons beset by recurring headaches.
    — Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 30 May 2024
  • The ending sequence, with an adult Owen, beset by disappointment and a bottled sense of self, is scary and explosive.
    — Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 3 May 2024
  • The vehicle was initially supposed to launch in 2017 but was beset by delays.
    — Jonathan O'Callaghan, WIRED, 6 May 2024
  • The switch was made partly in pursuit of an invigorating new experience but also as a hedge against the wildfires that have beset the region in recent years.
    — Jorge L. Ortiz, USA TODAY, 3 July 2024
  • Toranaga is outnumbered and beset by assassination attempts, forcing him to fall back on his wits to outmaneuver the council.
    — Ryu Spaeth, Vulture, 23 Apr. 2024
  • Godwin was recruited as an outsider from CBS News and was beset by grumbling about her management style that made it into print.
    — David Bauder, Fortune, 6 May 2024
  • Investment has stalled as the sector is beset by inconsistent accounting and flawed carbon estimates, among other problems.
    — Alan Neuhauser, Axios, 24 July 2024
  • Even the walk from the front door to the gutter is beset with peril.
    — Karen Russell, The New Yorker, 4 June 2017
  • Climate change, Covid and the threat of war may beset Gen Zers.
    — New York Times, 28 Apr. 2022
  • The program had been beset with problems from the start.
    — Richard A. Webster, ProPublica, 11 Apr. 2023
  • On the day that Charlie was buried, the church and the graveyard were beset by reporters.
    — Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2023
  • Polling has been beset by a host of challenges during the past few years.
    — Maria Eloisa Capurro, Bloomberg.com, 18 Nov. 2020
  • Yet the project has been beset with delays and mounting costs.
    — Corinne Purtill, Los Angeles Times, 6 Mar. 2024
  • In the sequence where Belle runs away from the Beast's castle and is beset by wolves, the Beast rescues her.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 14 Dec. 2022
  • Over the years it has been beset by leaks, mold and issues with its facade.
    — orlandosentinel.com, 10 July 2021
  • Kela has been beset with biceps tendonitis off and on for the past five weeks.
    — Stefan Stevenson, star-telegram.com, 1 July 2017
  • Thinking back to the origins of the pandemic in March, we were beset by fear.
    — Mona Charen, Star Tribune, 20 Oct. 2020
  • In the past year, EA has been beset by scandal, including the fall of Bankman-Fried, one of its largest donors.
    — Nitasha Tiku, Anchorage Daily News, 7 July 2023
  • To be sure, the work has been long and tedious, beset by setbacks at every turn.
    — John Gallagher, Freep.com, 19 Dec. 2019
  • The museum has been beset by delays, partly due to the drop in oil prices.
    — Bloomberg.com, 7 Sep. 2017
  • Credit Suisse has been beset by a litany of scandals over the past few years.
    — Siladitya Ray, Forbes, 16 Mar. 2023
  • The fund was also beset by massive amounts of fraud that cost the state billions of dollars.
    — Adam Beam, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2023
  • The bank was tightly linked to the tech industry, which is beset by layoffs.
    — Ellen Francis, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Mar. 2023
  • From the start, the reform process was beset by dissent and infighting.
    — Los Angeles Times, 5 Aug. 2021

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