Example Sentences

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“Europe will give its contribution to allow this terrible scourge that is besetting the countries of Western Africa to be combated effectively,” Ms. Merkel said.

From New York Times • Oct. 23, 2014

"Now the masque is over, that Captain Armytage is besetting me again."

From The Long Vacation by Yonge, Charlotte Mary

Bowing his head before the Duchess, he said: "Our brothers in the Lord, from the Reichenau, bid me tell you that a great thirst is besetting their ranks."

From Ekkehard. Vol. I (of II) A Tale of the Tenth Century by Scheffel, Joseph Victor von