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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91. They'd laid in for a siege with dozens of eggs, cans of luncheon meat, and tea.
92. She had laid siege to the typists' room for some minutes before Marshall had persuaded her downstairs.
93. Alresford lifted the siege when Clarke kicked a penalty from fully 40 metres, and they followed up with the decisive try.
94. He was involved in the siege of Cadiz and came to have charge of an aristocratic lady there.
95. He laid siege to the fortress and gradually weakened it to the point of collapse.
96. In June 1176 Richard laid siege to Limoges; after a few days resistance Aimar's citadel capitulated.
97. The Siege of Chattanooga had at least one very unusual aspect: Many of the besiegers were as miserable as the besieged.
98. Her fervour and her depiction of a siege mentality do not transfer too easily to Britain.
99. These should be noted, before one views the siege as baseline myth for the interpretation of everyday life.
100. The Cavaliers occupied Burghley House, but they were heavily outnumbered, and Cromwell forced them to surrender after a bitter siege.
101. With the last of the Kislevite armies defeated, the Chaos hordes advanced upon Praag and laid siege to the city.
102. In other countries, the indigenous peoples live in a state of siege.
103. I had learned about a minor siege connected with an important river crossing not far from my home.
104. Penn, Cage and Leigh give these career performances at a time when movie acting is under siege by special effects.
105. The trebuchet; a twelfth-century example of this deadly weapon, capable of enormous destruction as a siege engine.
106. It was the beginning of a siege that would last a week.
107. Marina is a new Anne Frank, one of 80,000 frightened children caught in an ugly, vicious siege.
108. And shortly, in her armies' unremitting retreat, the great fortress of Przemysl was abandoned to siege.
109. The town of Moulineuf was captured after a siege lasting ten days.
110. And heavy rain, at this period of the siege, was something that the garrison could have well done without.
111. Thousands of Union men were set to digging entrenchments and preparing emplacements for siege guns.
112. The protesters flung handfuls of earth into the trenches in a vain attempt to lift the siege of the West Bank town.
113. In these days of siege, psychiatrists must treat disaffection through militant group action and advocating conscientious, high-quality patient care.
114. Police marksmen were then drafted in for a 12 hour siege after he barricaded himself in.
114. Sentencedict.com try its best to gather and make good sentences.
115. After his victory Edward rallied his troops and marched north to lay siege to Calais.
116. At the siege of Drincourt, however, Philip's brother, Matthew of Boulogne, was wounded by a crossbow bolt.
117. After the death of Sigismund during the siege of Altdorf the horn passed into the keeping of the Temple of Sigmar.
118. Here the Navy is under siege for all kinds of moral and ethical improprieties.
119. The mythical value of the siege for the construction of protestant - loyalist hegemony should not be underrated.
120. Shrubs under siege Adult weevils particularly like camellias and rhododendrons, nibbling notches around the edges of leaves.
More similar words: transient, legend, alleged, college, vegetable, allegedly, the general public, electoral college.