Sentence examples for be embattled from inspiring English sources
adjective
Subject to or troubled by battles, controversy or debates.
Could Morrissey ever not be embattled?
Al-Shabaab may be embattled, but it is far from beaten.
France will be embattled if their supreme effort in this tournament is already behind them.
Books may be embattled, but you wouldn't know it standing in a bookstore, surrounded by stacks and rows and upright displays of gorgeously designed covers.
For one thing, those who hold improbably evil views already believe themselves to be embattled victims of the forces of evil.
By Macy Halford June 24 , 2010Books may be embattled, but you wouldn't know it standing in a bookstore, surrounded by stacks and rows and upright displays of gorgeously designed covers.
Of late, that government has been embattled.
In his last years, he was embattled and embittered.
Holder is embattled on a number of fronts.
But if Israeli liberals are embattled, they are not walking contradictions in terms.
MICHAEL STEELE has entered that company of politicians whose unofficial first names are "embattled"—like "embattled Roland Burris" and "embattled Scooter Libby".
