Sentence examples for a besieging from inspiring English sources

Time to make like a besieging medieval army and set up camp outside Strathallan Castle, Perthshire.

There were so many hangers-on, said John of Hildesheim, that they could not get lodgings in Jerusalem and had to camp outside, looking like a besieging army.Flustered as the kings were, the great treasure seemed to get forgotten (except for a small golden apple that was once Alexander's, offered by Melchior, which immediately fell to ash because it symbolised, unhappily, Eve's apple in Eden).

The ants were a doomed people in a besieged city.

East Berlin took on the aspect of a besieged city.

They had begun to feel like a besieged minority.

That is because Berlin is a besieged city a hundred miles behind the Iron Curtain.

Victors playing victims, they saw themselves as a besieged people, with nowhere to go.

Newly-arrived Russian warplanes bombarded Isis militants at a besieged Kweris air base, monitors said today.

B3 NASIRIYA -- A reporter's notebook on Ambush Alley and a besieged city.

In Steven Spielberg's Lincoln, 100 shells a minute are raining down on a besieged confederate city.

It boasts that "a besieged grouse moor community turned to Abzed.