Synonym: beleaguering, besieging, military blockade. Similar words: transient, legend, alleged, college, vegetable, allegedly, the general public, electoral college. Meaning: [sɪːdʒ] n. the action of an armed force that surrounds a fortified place and isolates it while continuing to attack.
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61. The siege ended after three days.
62. Meanwhile, the siege of Antwerp was entered upon.
63. Richmondshire Rifle and Pistol Club members fear a public backlash against their sport after an armed siege in Darlington.
64. He is a veteran of numerous firefights and narrow escapes who has shown notable serenity throughout the siege.
65. Despite the siege, Nicholas had made the short journey many times to sleep at his villa.
66. The bloody siege of the ranch complex in Waco has already left at least six police and cult members dead.
67. No one could, and the horrible creature devoured man after man until the city was in a state of siege.
68. Siege Hours earlier Mr Thomas described how his world fell apart last Monday when he found the first signs of foot-and-mouth.
69. Gorbad halted the attack and prepared for a long siege.
70. After a three day siege the kidnapper's nerve failed and he gave himself up to the police.
71. Tension mounted in the early hours of yesterday morning when a shot was heard in the area of the siege house.
72. So many people had died during the siege either from wounds or illness that a considerable quantity of private stores had accumulated.
73. These multi-purpose, leisure-park hotels look under siege like huge ocean liners in trouble at sea.
74. She said the siege ended after 43 hours of negotiations when Say left his home without the shotgun and was arrested.
75. The Army and the police remained under intense pressure in the Jaffna peninsula where many camps and stations were under siege.
76. But although he had mustered a large army the siege went badly for him.
77. The siege had shown that, with artillery, Henry V had the capability of fulfilling his military ambition.
78. Almost ten years had passed since they had first laid siege to the town, and it seemed as strong as ever.
79. Alfonso, hearing the news, at once raised the siege of Saragossa and began to assemble his own forces.
80. He assembled a vast army and laid siege to the city on 4 December 1359.
81. Armed paramilitary police placed central Turin under a virtual state of siege for the hearing on Saturday morning.
82. In 476 they laid siege to Eion, which guarded the Strymon bridge.
83. Roxburgh Castle was proof against all but prolonged siege and heavy artillery.
84. College dormitories[sentencedict.com/siege.html], church gymnasiums and inner-city loft apartments are being converted into hostels during the Olympic siege.
85. Read in studio Britain's churches are under siege, according to the company which insures them.
86. Lumbering was an attack operation, as thoroughly strategic and disciplined as a military siege.
87. They had blocked the street off, rather as if an armed siege was in progress.
88. The siege of Pleime in the Ia Drang valley ended on October 27.
89. Military sources stated that lifting the state of siege would not affect the fight against internal subversion.
90. In less than two generations, since the Second World War, they have laid siege to the academic world.
More similar words: transient, legend, alleged, college, vegetable, allegedly, the general public, electoral college.