Sentence examples for be harried from inspiring English sources

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be harried

verb

To bother; to trouble.

  • We shall harry the enemy at every turn until his morale breaks and he is at our mercy.

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He seems thrilled to be harried.

Despite calls for reconciliation, Red Shirt supporters have continued to be harried.

Should the Chinese imbroglio be tactfully disembroiled, one is sure to be harried by an American boxing match. . . .

A gang that murders people will be harried by civil injunctions and crackdowns on petty probation violations.

If FDR needed to be harried into taking progressive measures, you can bet that Boris Johnson does.

The busier you are the more important you seem; thus, people compete to be — or, at least, to appear to be harried.

Most Premier League players trap the ball without problem if unmarked or unpressurised, but can be harried into mistakes, which is as it should be.

As he had written in his 1942 book "Party Government," the two parties "let themselves be harried by pressure groups as a timid whale might be pursued by a school of minnows".

If Democrats, including the president, do not draw a clear line soon, making their priorities and their limits unmistakable, they will be harried by these kinds of votes for years.

It even says banks should be harried to introduce balance to their "overwhelmingly male" trading floors.These disparate proposals are knit together by the notion that what really failed in the financial crisis was the culture of banking.

SHE could at least pretend to be harried and harassed, show some battle scars, look less like a television anchor and more like the enforcer who played office "bad cop" in her deputy days.

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