How to Use beset in a Sentence

beset

verb

• A lack of money is the greatest problem besetting the city today.
• The United States is a nation already beset by deep divisions.
  — Richard Jackson, CNN, 13 Sep. 2021
• The mandate was sure to meet resistance, and could signal to the British how beset the Americans were by illness.
  — Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 15 Oct. 2021
• Workers’ efforts at unionization have been beset by layoffs since the start of the pandemic, organizers said.
  — Katie Rice, orlandosentinel.com, 16 Sep. 2021
• After 16 years beset by crises and critics, Angela Merkel, arguably the world’s most powerful woman, is stepping down from the world stage.
  — NBC News, 25 Sep. 2021
• Charlie’s life, beset by troubles – cancer, divorce, economic recession and broken dreams – gets a second act courtesy of his storyteller son.
  — Barbara Vandenburgh, USA TODAY, 25 Sep. 2021
• Additionally, an adjacent business’s employees using a fire extinguisher were able to rapidly put out the fire that had beset a small stack of papers.
  — Rayna Reid, Essence, 30 Sep. 2021
• The outcomes are subject to the whims of weather and stock, and typically beset by high rates of by-catch – the residual capture and depletion of turtles, fish, and other aquatic life.
  — Dan Ikenson, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2024
• Unfortunately for Crowder, he has been beset with numerous injuries over the past several seasons.
  — J.p. Pelzman, Forbes, 26 Sep. 2021
• Now Australia plans to scrap that project, which was beset by cost overruns, in favor of working with the U.S. and Britain to develop a nuclear fleet.
  — Chris Megerian, Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 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
• From the start, the reform process was beset by dissent and infighting.
  — Los Angeles Times, 5 Aug. 2021
• The weather was still clear and the wind was out of the northwest at 10 to 15 knots, but the long Pacific rollers that beset that coast so much of the time were growing in size.
  — Orval C. Johnson, Outdoor Life, 31 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 21 Dec 2024