Beleaguered

"Beleaguered" in a Sentence (12 examples)

After all of these years of war, the populace is tired and beleaguered.

The wombat lives in the wild only in Australia. In its own small way, the furry marsupial is doing its bit to help the beleaguered community of Burnie, which has seen the loss of hundreds of jobs as the national economy slides into reverse.

The beleaguered city held out against the enemy's attacks for weeks.

a beleaguered stronghold

a beleaguered town

4,500 British and Indian troops and twelve thousand camp-followers, including some three dozen British wives, children and nannies, found themselves beleaguered in what Kaye described as little better than ‘sheep-folds on the plain’.

a beleaguered ego

a beleaguered identity

a beleaguered real estate market

Chelsea were coping comfortably as Liverpool left Luis Suarez too isolated. Steven Gerrard was also being forced to drop too deep to offer support to the beleaguered Jay Spearing and Jordan Henderson rather than add attacking potency alongside the Uruguayan.

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Ministers have not ruled out stripping the beleaguered operator of its franchise when it comes up for renewal on October 16.

The beleaguered prime minister will attempt to shore up her crumbling support by gathering her cabinet ministers at No 10 on Monday evening and then embarking on a series of meetings with mutinous Tory MPs before the next budget in a fortnight’s time.

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