How to Use beleaguer in a Sentence

beleaguer

verb
  • But most of the rest of the new budget is what Italy’s beleaguered economy doesn’t need.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 20 Dec. 2018
  • Help is in sight for New York City’s beleaguered commuters.
    — Roderick M. Hills, Fortune, 25 Jan. 2018
  • So what does Trump -- beleaguered at home -- hope to accomplish on his first trip abroad?
    — Aaron David Miller, CNN, 17 May 2017
  • Two five-run leads in the first two games evaporated in big innings against the Rangers’ beleaguered bullpen.
    — Stefan Stevenson, star-telegram.com, 4 May 2017
  • His ninth-inning homer off Matt Grace capped an 11-run barrage for the Cubs against the Nationals’ beleaguered bullpen.
    — Greg Swatek, The Seattle Times, 18 May 2019
  • Many Indians obeyed the rules, wary of catching the virus and not trusting India’s beleaguered health care system to save them.
    — New York Times, 6 May 2020
  • Case in point: Even beleaguered Sean Spicer was roasted for an old Tweet yesterday.
    — Sam Dangremond, Town & Country, 27 Mar. 2017
  • The move comes as the carrier has been beleaguered by a wave of negative press since a passenger was bloodied and dragged off one its flights on April 9.
    — Ben Mutzabaugh, USA TODAY, 27 Apr. 2017
  • But clearly many of those one-run losses are the result of teams rallying vs. Colorado’s beleaguered bullpen.
    — Jeff Bailey, The Denver Post, 28 Aug. 2019
  • Those who live in the 1mpact House are among certain groups of students at UC who will be particularly beleaguered by the order to leave campus.
    — Max Londberg, Cincinnati.com, 17 Mar. 2020
  • But the temporary plug for the Comey testimony still leaves the messaging problems that have beleaguered the White House for months unsolved.
    — Jeremy Diamond and Sara Murray, CNN, 6 June 2017
  • But there just might be hope for Florida’s beleaguered attack.
    — Edgar Thompson, OrlandoSentinel.com, 16 Sep. 2017
  • The same can’t be said of California’s beleaguered bullet train, and one of Ms. Chao’s first orders of business should be to cut the choo choo off federal life support.
    — WSJ, 16 Jan. 2017
  • Malloy insists on hiking taxes and fees on the Nutmeg State’s beleaguered taxpayers to the tune of $1.5 billion.
    — Matt Walter, National Review, 21 Sep. 2017
  • Matt Harvey, battered and beleaguered, walked into the media room at Citi Field on Tuesday afternoon with his head down and sat down in front of the microphone.
    — James Wagner, New York Times, 9 May 2017
  • It was supposed to be a battle between a pair of one-and-done lottery picks, the type of players beleaguered NBA fan bases will peg as potential franchise saviors.
    — Nick Moyle, Houston Chronicle, 3 Feb. 2018
  • It was supposed to be a battle between a pair of one-and-done lottery picks, the type of players beleaguered NBA fan bases will peg as potential franchise saviors.
    — Nick Moyle, San Antonio Express-News, 3 Feb. 2018
  • On it, bursts of energy are beleaguered by sleep, and lullabylike passages are interspersed with wails of joy.
    — Emma Madden, Vulture, 10 Apr. 2023
  • The Sooners’ beleaguered defense held Kansas to second-quarter field goal and 155 yards of total offense.
    — John Shinn, ajc, 18 Nov. 2017
  • Houston’s beleaguered offensive line didn’t allow a sack on Sunday after giving up 18 through the first four games.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Oct. 2019
  • Russia’s beleaguered space science program is hoping for a rare triumph this month.
    — Daniel Clery, Science | AAAS, 15 July 2019
  • Meanwhile, Mono Lake, beleaguered by three years of drought, is expected to rise by several feet, a welcome reprieve as the lake has struggled to reach target levels.
    — Evan Bush, NBC News, 6 June 2023
  • Three physicists who have been collaborating in the San Francisco Bay Area over the past year have devised a new solution to a mystery that has beleaguered their field for more than 30 years.
    — Quanta Magazine, 27 May 2015
  • The 2019 season, led by Colton Underwood, was beleaguered by pageant infighting.
    — Ariana Romero, refinery29.com, 5 Feb. 2020
  • Far from the initial fighting was the Catholic church, a supposedly safe place for triage, and beleaguered and wounded students were arriving from the front lines by pickup truck, by motorbike, and on foot.
    — Joshua Partlow, chicagotribune.com, 14 July 2018
  • Even the tech-heavy Nasdaq composite, beleaguered last week over data issues at its go-to winner Facebook, surged 3.3 percent.
    — Thomas Heath, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Mar. 2018
  • Officials on both sides gave figures that indicated about 16 people have died in connection with the flooding, which has added misery to the lives of Ukrainians beleaguered by the war.
    — Jamey Keaten, USA TODAY, 9 June 2023
  • Despite the offense’s productivity, the team was beleaguered by slow starts.
    — Edward Lee, baltimoresun.com, 6 June 2018
  • Unfortunately, fans of the 82-year-old tavern on Fairfax are all too familiar with Tom Bergin’s beleaguered saga.
    — Garrett Snyder, Los Angeles Magazine, 16 Jan. 2018
  • These are dispatches from the front lines of America’s beleaguered social service system, which strains to care for millions of vulnerable people in the best of times.
    — Joaquin Sapien, ProPublica, 21 Mar. 2020

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