How to Use under siege in a Sentence

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  • Running backs are under siege across the league as teams want to get younger.
    — Calvin Watkins, Dallas News, 18 July 2023
  • The world isn’t under siege, but on these shows the whole world is in every moment.
    — Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Sep. 2023
  • For months, the court itself appeared to be under siege.
    — David G. Savage, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2023
  • But leaving the city isn’t an option this time; the airport, under siege by gangs, has been forced to close.
    — Caitlin Stephen Hu, CNN, 18 Mar. 2024
  • The city has felt under siege from graffiti for decades.
    — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 3 Feb. 2024
  • The Cedar fire, followed quickly by the deadly Paradise fire and the Otay fire, held the region under siege for days.
    — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Oct. 2023
  • Mayden doesn’t figure to be under siege this week against Boise State.
    — Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Sep. 2023
  • Gaza, home to 2.3 million people and one of the most densely populated places in the world, is under siege.
    — Doha Madani, NBC News, 15 Oct. 2023
  • Gaza has been under siege since the Oct. 7 terror attack by Hamas in Israel, and hospitals in Gaza have run out of fuel and been bombed.
    — Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 21 Nov. 2023
  • The first few weeks were a rush of logistics: getting employees, who were scattered across Ukraine, out of cities under siege.
    — WIRED, 17 July 2023
  • Once inside the Capitol, Trump took no steps to restore order or aid the lawmakers under siege.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 13 Aug. 2023
  • The grandfather, who drove over an hour to a kibbutz under siege, armed only with a pistol and rescued his kids and grandkids.
    — Shannon K. Crawford, ABC News, 12 Oct. 2023
  • On the plus side, the film never takes its story, about a group of friends trapped in a barn under siege by zombie bats, all that seriously — and that's always fun.
    — Katie Rife, EW.com, 7 Nov. 2022
  • Hospitals were under siege, and food and water were growing scarce.
    — Vivian Yee, New York Times, 17 Nov. 2023
  • The voices of people living there provide a picture of how life has changed for them under siege and bombardment.
    — WSJ, 9 Nov. 2023
  • In a play in which even the utilities are under siege, the actress’s electricity provides the power, full scale.
    — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 21 Sep. 2023
  • Jets quarterback Zach Wilson is going to be under siege all night.
    — Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2023
  • With the allegations piling up, but with many questions still unanswered, the BBC appeared to be under siege.
    — Mark Landler, New York Times, 12 July 2023
  • And because Gaza is under siege and heavy bombardment, civilians have few avenues of escape, even if warned.
    — Amanda Taub, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2023
  • In the town of Sderot, under siege for several days, the central police station was reduced to rubble, the streets littered with bodies.
    — Joshua Leifer, The New York Review of Books, 12 Oct. 2023
  • And no one feels more under siege than quarterback Dak Prescott, who is the team’s best leader and also the biggest scapegoat for their playoff failure.
    — Clarence E. Hill Jr., Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 Mar. 2024
  • At a time when Catholics are under siege, the Biden administration is targeting the victims.
    — Tommy Valentine, National Review, 13 Jan. 2024
  • Fortenberry and her husband and kids live in the San Fernando Valley city, which has found itself under siege from fires, floods and heat storms in recent years.
    — Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Rampant turnover Pharmacies across the country found themselves under siege as the coronavirus pandemic took hold in the spring of 2020.
    — Marty Schladen, The Enquirer, 11 July 2023
  • Miria Webb, the Clinton library director, felt under siege.
    — Elizabeth Williamson, New York Times, 3 Feb. 2024
  • The air at Nasser Hospital is pierced by the cries of medical workers getting their first look at patients coming in from a city under siege.
    — Samar Abu Elouf, New York Times, 15 Nov. 2023
  • Israel placed Gaza under siege after the Hamas attacks, allowing in only 4% of the volume of goods that used to reach the strip before the war, according to the United Nations.
    — Chao Deng, WSJ, 31 Oct. 2023
  • Indeed, in the age of information, the moral neutrality of the mind seems to be increasingly under siege.
    — WIRED, 23 June 2023
  • Cap-Haitien is more than 100 miles from Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, where the airport has been under siege by gangs amid fighting between the clans and police in the surrounding area.
    — Colin McCullough, CNN, 18 Mar. 2024
  • The two largest hospitals in Gaza are no longer functioning after being under siege by Israeli forces.
    — Evan Minsker, Pitchfork, 14 Nov. 2023

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