besieges
- present tense form of besiege (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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While stifling heat besieges the nation this weekend from the desert Southwest to the Northeast, coastal Californians can’t afford to be smug.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 23, 2022
In “The Shadow of the Vulture” Suleyman the Magnificent besieges Vienna, whose two champions are the carousing ex-knight Gottfried von Kalmbach and the indomitable woman-warrior known as Red Sonya.
From Washington Post • Jun. 9, 2021
Widowhood besieges her, and “in the siege she has lost everything.”
From New York Times • Jun. 9, 2020
Ebola’s embers still glow in West Africa, and yellow fever besieges Angola.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 14, 2016
Vitiges unsuccessfully besieges Belisarius in Rome; great distress in the city.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 04 by Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis)
