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The young hockey player has been besieged by contract offers worth millions of dollars.

The American army was able to liberate the besieged town after a bloody battle.

Since her last movie, the actress has been besieged with requests from directors to star in their upcoming productions.

The army besieged the castle for many days.

A few years before the death of Christ, 960 Jews killed themselves in the besieged fortress of Masada rather than yield to Roman soldiers.

In the Middle Ages, disease was used as a weapon of war against besieged cities.

sigh He was besieged by callers.

The worst of it was, that starving the garrison would be starving the captives; and likewise, so far up on the mountain, a troop of eighty or ninety men and horses were as liable to lack of provisions as could be the besieged garrison.

If I had come here in my own name I should have been besieged by every plausible rogue who could catch my ear for half an hour.

The besieged governors would only give way as to the free pardon, so the fighting continued as before.

The besieged knew how to use their guns, and behaved with so much spirit, that every attack was repulsed.

74 The efforts of the besieged were now prompted by despair.

The strife fomented by Cylon broke out afresh, and he was closely besieged in the temple by his enemies.

The latter requires the pupil to strive for ends which he cannot see, so that he has to be kept at the task by means of offering artificial ends, marks, and promotions, and by isolating him in an atmosphere where his mind and senses are not being constantly besieged by the call of life which appeals so strongly to him.

It was a night of little ease to his toiling mind, toiling in mere darkness and besieged by questions.

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