How to Use harass in a Sentence

harass

verb

• He claims that he is being unfairly harassed by the police.
• She was constantly harassed by the other students.
• From inside the skate park, 23-year-old Alegria yelled at the deputies to stop harassing the kids.
  — Keri Blakinger, Los Angeles Times, 24 Jan. 2024
• Court records show he was charged with harassing phone calls and written threats to cause harm.
  — Samira Asma-Sadeque, Peoplemag, 1 Dec. 2023
• Either way, your mom should speak to the family and urge them to stop harassing you.
  — Harriette Cole, The Mercury News, 29 Feb. 2024
• Bieber asked her fans to stop harassing people, once and for all, in her full statement.
  — Alyssa Bailey, ELLE, 13 June 2023
• Har says the guards did not harass anyone physically, but the captives were most afraid for the 17-year-old girl.
  — Daniel Estrin, NPR, 5 Apr. 2024
• The owner asked to not have his store identified or his name published for fear that he would be harassed.
  — Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2023
• The No Limit boss plays a neighborhood goon who gets picked up and harassed by Kurt Russell.
  — Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 17 Nov. 2023
• More than one-third said they had been harassed by Chinese police or state agents while in Turkey.
  — Keir Simmons, NBC News, 10 Aug. 2023
• The husbands who proposed the banners were harassed online, called groomers and pedophiles.
  — Hailey Branson-Potts, Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2023
• Lilith and other dancers asked not to be identified by their legal names for fear of being harassed or stalked.
  — Ava Sasani, New York Times, 16 May 2023
• While some of the most prominent of them, such as the filmmakers Ai and Hu Jie, have been harassed, others continue to work.
  — Ian Johnson, Foreign Affairs, 19 Dec. 2023
• Students told the Star-Telegram strangers hang out in the alley behind their homes day and night, sometimes harassing them on their way to campus.
  — James Hartley, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 1 Mar. 2024
• What if the coaching objective is being able to cheat on an exam or harass a colleague at work?
  — Anna Gallotti, Forbes, 4 May 2023
• Many of the nearly 40 students who spoke to the board said they been insulted, harassed or threatened since the war began on Oct. 7 and now fear stepping on campus.
  — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Nov. 2023
• And on the brink of his sixth decade in this earthly realm, Shi still takes pleasure in passing on the secrets of kung fu and Chan (Zen) Buddhism to both movie stars and harassed office workers.
  — Charlie Campbell, Time, 7 June 2023
• Benedict, while in the hospital, spoke to police officers and told them the bathroom fight had started when three girls harassed them.
  — S. Dev, CBS News, 21 Mar. 2024
• The petition from Solis cites other instances in which staffers say they were harassed by Herman.
  — Rebecca Ellis, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2023
• Rosenworcel says the Safe Connections Act could ensure that survivors aren’t tracked or harassed through their cars.
  — Alicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 29 Feb. 2024
• Last year, a group of Muslims of Bangladeshi descent said they were threatened and harassed while on a farm near Adrian for a religious holiday.
  — Niraj Warikoo, Detroit Free Press, 17 Aug. 2023
• They have been bombarded with harassing phone calls and even reported death threats.
  — Lisa Mascaro, Farnoush Amiri, Stephen Groves and Keving Freking The Associated Press, Arkansas Online, 21 Oct. 2023
• At one public meeting, past students appeared to show support, saying the same teacher had harassed them as well.
  — Journal Sentinel, 4 Jan. 2024
• According to Los Angeles Times, the female otter has been harassing surfers and trying to steal boards since mid-June.
  — Michael Lee Simpson, Peoplemag, 12 July 2023
• The first is designed to deter family members and others from harassing the agent.
  — Virginia Hammerle, Dallas News, 17 Sep. 2023
• Later, some residents would call 911 to report feeling harassed or unable to walk to their cars safely.
  — Tim Craig, Washington Post, 12 Nov. 2023
• Several residents said Lorincz had a history of harassing children who played in the field and would use racial slurs against them.
  — Minyvonne Burke, NBC News, 8 June 2023
• For example, James shot and killed his ex-girlfriend Faith Hall in 1994 after stalking and harassing her, according to court records.
  — Mike Cason | [e-mail], al, 17 June 2023
• Hotel rooms would be rented, then never paid for; a paintball company was forced to harass Sycamore’s social team over a credit card scam.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 23 Aug. 2023
• White students inside the school started harassing the Black students.
  — Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 31 July 2023

Last Updated: 7 May 2024