Sentence examples for besieging it from inspiring English sources

Jourdan had taken Charleroi, in the rear of Coburg's main forces, on June 25, after besieging it since June 12.

Activists said that there had been firefights between the armed opposition that controlled the village and the government forces besieging it.

The Spanish have never accepted the loss of Gibraltar, besieging it on three occasions and most recently blockading it from 1969 to 1985.

Yet Davies succeeds, and it is quite a success, in preserving the past as a rough guide to an uncertain future, rather than besieging it as a predictor of the uncontrollable present.

An example of the continued inability of the Iraqi army to remedy the failings, which led to its loss of Mosul and Tikrit, came on 21 September when Isis overran a base at Saqlawiya, near Fallujah, west of Baghdad after besieging it for a week.

Because of the rebel resistance, the regime shut off Moadamiya from the world, besieging it since early November 2012.

The book must also explain how M.I.T. began in Back Bay Boston, not in Cambridge, and how besieged it was in its early days.

Zero Hour! (yes, they even stole the exclamation mark) was a 1957 potboiler written by Airport's Arthur Hailey, and the trio swiped its absurd food-poisoning-at-30,000ft plot – and a lot of its dialogue – then besieged it with their full comedic powers.

Its fighters methodically cut off the electricity supply to the camp, then besieged it for five hours before overwhelming its armed guards.

"You're not besieged," it read.

If they besiege it will be worse than Homs.