besiege
verb (used with object)
to lay siege to.
were besieging
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past progressiveof besiege.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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On Monday residents and medics said Israeli forces were besieging hospitals and shelters for displaced people.
From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2024
Crowds were besieging big-box stores to grab hand sanitizer and toilet paper.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 23, 2020
The Aztecs who received the Spaniards and their band of indigenous allies had since turned against them and were besieging their compound.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 2, 2018
Reporters were besieging him and other legislators for comment, and he did not want to misstate facts or disclose classified information.
From New York Times ● Nov. 29, 2012
Fears were entertained, the dispatches said, of a "meteorological cataclysm," and thousands who had friends either on the coast or in transit were besieging the telegraph offices in vain.
From Eleven Possible Cases by Fyles, Franklin
