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, San Antonio Express-News, 3 Feb. 2018
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Police fired tear gas and made several arrests, and the city’s beleaguered subway operator closed more than two dozen stations.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 14 Oct. 2019
• Ortiz’s criticism has beleaguered the theory ever since the late Danish physicist Per Bak proposed it in 1992.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Quanta Magazine, 14 June 2018
• Credit Suisse, one of Switzerland’s two megabanks, had been beleaguered ever since the financial crisis because of a series of missteps and scandals.
  — Niall Ferguson and Moritz Schularick, WSJ, 21 Mar. 2023
• Yet the marque isn’t immune from growing pains, as supply chain issues continue to beleaguer the industry and waiting times for some existing Air orders have increased beyond the two-to-five-month window, according to some customers.
  — Laura Burstein, Robb Report, 19 July 2022

Last Updated: 17 Jul 2024