had besieged
- past perfect of besiege.
Example Sentences
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On the eve of the march, Uganda's main opposition leader, Bobi Wine, said security forces had besieged the Kampala headquarters of his National Unity Platform party.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2024
Afghan officials said clashes were continuing in Kunduz, and a major military operation was planned to retake the strategically important city that the militants had besieged for months.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 8, 2021
It took a lot of courage for Peter Lui to go down the sewage drain – but he thought it was better than surrendering to the police who had besieged Polytechnic University in Hong Kong.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 27, 2019
Residents are far better off than they were in 2014, when it was rebels who had besieged the government side.
From New York Times ● Nov. 4, 2016
The decrepit lawyers dressed in black who during other times had besieged Colonel Aureliano Buendía and who now were controlled by the banana company dismissed those demands with decisions that seemed like acts of magic.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
