Example Sentences

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No one, of course, would argue that uptown matrons will be besieging their dentists for grillwork any time soon.

From New York Times • May 11, 2016

Captains, majors, colonels and, yes, generals, will be besieging me for jobs, as zealously as they're now besieging Lee's army in the trenches before Petersburg, and with as much cause.

From The Tree of Appomattox by Altsheler, Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander)