Example Sentences

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A similar problem besets Georgia's On Replay – a generic club track with a tra-la-la chorus.

From BBC • May 8, 2026

The accounts of ramming must also be seen through the panic that naturally besets humans when they encounter such enormous animals.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 28, 2023

The logistical confusion that sometimes besets the narrative, splintering outward even as it barrels toward its grim conclusion, is matched by creeping undercurrents of doubt and anxiety at every turn.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 1, 2021

First, it emphasizes that even the MCU isn't free from the class conflict that besets the real world.

From Salon • Jul. 13, 2019

Something of this sensation still besets me whenever we go down in the Subway from Belshazzar Court to hear Caruso.

From Atlantic Classics by Various