How to Use beset in a Sentence

beset

verb

• A lack of money is the greatest problem besetting the city today.
• Yet since its launch last Sunday the new channel has been beset by technical problems.
  — Guy Davies, ABC News, 20 June 2021
• And grading companies in the UK have been beset by scandal.
  — Will Bedingfield, Wired, 13 June 2021
• Their love is all-consuming, beset only by external factors, not their own devotion to each other.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 30 June 2021
• That's refreshing in a world beset by duplicitous backstabbers who switch allegiances on the fly.
  — Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 1 Jan. 2025
• Itta Bena is a small city beset by difficult times on the Mississippi delta.
  — Sam Blum, The Athletic, 6 Jan. 2025
• And the death toll is expected to increase as migrants are beset by a growing sense of desperation, according to experts.
  — Dallas News, 26 June 2021
• Her Oakland neighborhood was beset by pollution and gang violence.
  — Lisette Voytko, Forbes, 7 July 2021
• Ethnic insurgencies that beset Myanmar for decades have flared anew and civilians angered by a wave of arrests have taken up arms against security forces.
  — Reuters, CNN, 30 June 2021
• Western governments have burdened Georgia with a special status as a democracy-in-the-making in a region otherwise beset by despotism.
  — Christian Caryl, Foreign Affairs, 26 Dec. 2024
• The only other times government spending approached the proportion of the economy that the Biden budget sees as a future steady state were also beset by emergencies.
  — Milton Ezrati, Forbes, 25 June 2021
• Ohio’s unemployment benefits program has been beset with problems long before the pandemic, with employers, labor unions, and state lawmakers unable to agree how to fix it.
  — Jeremy Pelzer, cleveland, 25 June 2021
• Even the walk from the front door to the gutter is beset with peril.
  — Karen Russell, The New Yorker, 4 June 2017
• Climate change, Covid and the threat of war may beset Gen Zers.
  — New York Times, 28 Apr. 2022
• The program had been beset with problems from the start.
  — Richard A. Webster, ProPublica, 11 Apr. 2023
• On the day that Charlie was buried, the church and the graveyard were beset by reporters.
  — Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2023
• Polling has been beset by a host of challenges during the past few years.
  — Maria Eloisa Capurro, Bloomberg.com, 18 Nov. 2020
• Yet the project has been beset with delays and mounting costs.
  — Corinne Purtill, Los Angeles Times, 6 Mar. 2024
• In the sequence where Belle runs away from the Beast's castle and is beset by wolves, the Beast rescues her.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 14 Dec. 2022
• Over the years it has been beset by leaks, mold and issues with its facade.
  — orlandosentinel.com, 10 July 2021
• Kela has been beset with biceps tendonitis off and on for the past five weeks.
  — Stefan Stevenson, star-telegram.com, 1 July 2017
• Thinking back to the origins of the pandemic in March, we were beset by fear.
  — Mona Charen, Star Tribune, 20 Oct. 2020
• In the past year, EA has been beset by scandal, including the fall of Bankman-Fried, one of its largest donors.
  — Nitasha Tiku, Anchorage Daily News, 7 July 2023
• To be sure, the work has been long and tedious, beset by setbacks at every turn.
  — John Gallagher, Freep.com, 19 Dec. 2019
• The museum has been beset by delays, partly due to the drop in oil prices.
  — Bloomberg.com, 7 Sep. 2017
• Credit Suisse has been beset by a litany of scandals over the past few years.
  — Siladitya Ray, Forbes, 16 Mar. 2023
• The fund was also beset by massive amounts of fraud that cost the state billions of dollars.
  — Adam Beam, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2023
• The scandals that have beset the empire on both sides of the Atlantic have cost well over $2 billion so far.
  — David Folkenflik, NPR, 16 Sep. 2024
• Many hundreds of fires burned just on that one night, in this borough which had been beset by fires for the past nine years.
  — Ian Frazier, The New Yorker, 15 July 2024
• The bank was tightly linked to the tech industry, which is beset by layoffs.
  — Ellen Francis, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 1 Feb 2025