How to Use harass in a Sentence

harass

verb

• He claims that he is being unfairly harassed by the police.
• She was constantly harassed by the other students.
• Mejia was scared more people would come in to harass them — or worse.
  — Ben Goggin, NBC News, 19 Aug. 2022
• The bus is full, and the officials only harass four of us.
  — Alán Pelaez Lopez, refinery29.com, 15 Mar. 2023
• The conflict began five years ago when the poster's son, Marc, was harassed by Nicky and her friends.
  — Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 11 Dec. 2024
• From inside the skate park, 23-year-old Alegria yelled at the deputies to stop harassing the kids.
  — Keri Blakinger, Los Angeles Times, 24 Jan. 2024
• Did Kang ever tell the swimmers to stop harassing the girl?
  — Scott M. Reid, Orange County Register, 18 May 2024
• And people aren’t going to pay that kind of money just to harass me.
  — Mary Colurso | [e-mail], al, 10 May 2022
• The officer told the man to return to his home and not harass the landscapers.
  — cleveland, 5 Nov. 2021
• Court records show he was charged with harassing phone calls and written threats to cause harm.
  — Samira Asma-Sadeque, Peoplemag, 1 Dec. 2023
• And these trolls came on to those pages and started to harass the family members.
  — CBS News, 1 June 2022
• As with all teams coached by Leonard Hamilton, this squad wants to harass ball-handlers.
  — Scott Horner, The Indianapolis Star, 29 Nov. 2021
• There were no school uniforms, and the gang members on campus didn’t harass him.
  — New York Times, 28 Apr. 2022
• Either way, your mom should speak to the family and urge them to stop harassing you.
  — Harriette Cole, The Mercury News, 29 Feb. 2024
• Bieber asked her fans to stop harassing people, once and for all, in her full statement.
  — Alyssa Bailey, ELLE, 13 June 2023
• In 2019, the court declined to hear the case of a man who said his former boyfriend sent people to harass him using the dating app Grindr.
  — David McCabe, New York Times, 19 Jan. 2023
• Har says the guards did not harass anyone physically, but the captives were most afraid for the 17-year-old girl.
  — Daniel Estrin, NPR, 5 Apr. 2024
• One raven will harass a dog that is trying to eat until the dog finally attempts to catch the bird.
  — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Feb. 2022
• The noise would serve two purposes: to alert others of danger and further harass the bear.
  — Jonathan Edwards, Anchorage Daily News, 19 July 2022
• The group started harassing Lee, 36, before Lewis and Spencer began to punch, kick and beat her with sticks.
  — Drew Dawson, Journal Sentinel, 16 Mar. 2023
• This is not the first time Russian fighter jets have harassed American planes over the Black Sea.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 16 Mar. 2023
• All of the women were living in private rental housing at the time they were harassed, according to the study.
  — Thao Nguyen, USA TODAY, 22 May 2024
• With 20 sacks, the Gators hope to harass Johnson into mistakes.
  — Edgar Thompson, orlandosentinel.com, 15 Oct. 2021
• The owner asked to not have his store identified or his name published for fear that he would be harassed.
  — Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2023
• Fans harassed him, slamming their fists on his office door, trying to catch a glimpse.
  — Jay Deitcher, Rolling Stone, 2 July 2024
• The No Limit boss plays a neighborhood goon who gets picked up and harassed by Kurt Russell.
  — Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 17 Nov. 2023
• By then, some of the fans who’d come to see Djokovic clinch a Grand Slam had managed to loudly harass Medvedev into double faults.
  — Gerald Marzorati, The New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2021
• Laurant said Brown's car broke down in front of the home and that the resident began to harass the group, telling them to leave his property.
  — Drake Bentley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 29 Oct. 2021
• In each instance, first reported by the IndyStar, women say they were abused, harassed and had their careers derailed.
  — Arika Herron, Axios, 23 Dec. 2024
• Ortiz alleged she was bullied, harassed and neglected by district staff, including the case manager.
  — Jessika Harkay, Hartford Courant, 20 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 23 Jan 2025