How to Use under siege in a Sentence

under siege

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• Disney is under siege from all sides.
  — Jason Abbruzzese, NBC news, 19 Sep. 2025
• Running backs are under siege across the league as teams want to get younger.
  — Calvin Watkins, Dallas News, 18 July 2023
• But the Fed has the feel of a castle under siege.
  — Binyamin Appelbaum, Mercury News, 4 Feb. 2026
• These advances have once again seen Kobani under siege.
  — Paul Iddon, Forbes.com, 20 Jan. 2026
• Even before the threats, the district has felt under siege.
  — CBS News, 2 Feb. 2026
• The world isn’t under siege, but on these shows the whole world is in every moment.
  — Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Sep. 2023
• The area had been placed under siege during the early days of the war and bombed to smithereens.
  — Justin Salhani, The Dial, 17 Dec. 2024
• Some of the early signs of a gut under siege from a high-protein diet?
  — Sara Hussain, Vogue, 12 May 2025
• Despite his outward calm, Smith is a man under siege.
  — USA Today, 8 Mar. 2026
• His legacy is under siege as racial justice efforts lose ground.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA Today, 27 May 2025
• Russian troops have advanced to the north and east of the town, which has been under siege for more than a year.
  — Tim Lister, CNN Money, 18 Oct. 2025
• Eleven minutes of soccer under siege.
  — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Dec. 2025
• Are Black voting rights under siege again at the Supreme Court?
  — Nicole Fallert, USA Today, 15 Oct. 2025
• But leaving the city isn’t an option this time; the airport, under siege by gangs, has been forced to close.
  — Caitlin Stephen Hu, CNN, 18 Mar. 2024
• In this era where truth is under siege daily, journalists stand as the last line of defense.
  — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 18 Feb. 2025
• Organizers warn that decades of progress in all human rights are under siege.
  — Rebecca Morin, USA Today, 10 June 2025
• Mayden doesn’t figure to be under siege this week against Boise State.
  — Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Sep. 2023
• On the final drive, with the Texans down three points, Stroud was under siege.
  — Dan Pompei, The Athletic, 24 Nov. 2024
• Hospitals were under siege, and food and water were growing scarce.
  — Vivian Yee, New York Times, 17 Nov. 2023
• Its objective was not to retreat from the citadels of governance but to place them under siege.
  — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2025
• But here Ingram was, back in net, under siege on a Vegas power play.
  — Joe Smith, New York Times, 31 Jan. 2026
• Whoever’s left is put under siege, bomb the hell out of them, and then just starve them out, basically.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 2 Jan. 2025
• New York City was under siege in the series finale of Blue Bloods.
  — Stephanie Wenger, People.com, 14 Dec. 2024
• The southern Syrian town of Suwayda is like a base under siege.
  — Taylor Luck, Christian Science Monitor, 11 June 2025
• Helsinki was never under siege, so Jansson and her peers were free to keep their free-spirited ways alive.
  — Patrick Sauer, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 June 2025
• Despite his outward calm, Sheriff Nick Smith is a man under siege.
  — Nicole Fallert, USA Today, 9 Mar. 2026
• The voices of people living there provide a picture of how life has changed for them under siege and bombardment.
  — WSJ, 9 Nov. 2023
• The agency world is under siege, but AI isn't the biggest disruptor.
  — Curtis Priest, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2025
• In his last days, my dying father longed for figs and other fruit, but thyme and duqqa were the only foods available in abundance under siege.
  — Literary Hub, 10 Nov. 2025
• The grandfather, who drove over an hour to a kibbutz under siege, armed only with a pistol and rescued his kids and grandkids.
  — Shannon K. Crawford, ABC News, 12 Oct. 2023