BESET in a Sentence
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32 example sentences for BESET, such as:
1. Now the beset him and made clamor.
2. Our troops was beset by enemy fire.
3. With fatalism, he accepted the hardships that beset him.
4. At this cry a hysterical fear and dismay beset the troops.
5. Many vexing problems beset the American public school system.
2. Our troops was beset by enemy fire.
3. With fatalism, he accepted the hardships that beset him.
4. At this cry a hysterical fear and dismay beset the troops.
5. Many vexing problems beset the American public school system.
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Meanings and Examples of BESET
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beset
v. attack from all sides; trouble persistently; hem in
Classic Sentence: (24 in 2 pages)
1 Munro had again sunk into that sort of apathy which had beset him since his late overwhelming misfortunes, and from which he was apparently to be roused only by some new and powerful excitement.
2 Now the beset him and made clamor.
3 At this cry a hysterical fear and dismay beset the troops.
4 You don't know, and you can't, the daily, hourly trials that beset a housekeeper from them, everywhere and every way.
5 I am beset here with neighbours that match your infidels, Sir Knight, in Holy Land.
6 And, in the meantime," said Locksley, "we will beset the place so closely, that not so much as a fly shall carry news from thence.
7 My Liege," said the Friar, "I humbly crave your pardon; and you would readily grant my excuse, did you but know how the sin of laziness has beset me.
8 It was a handsome old stucco hall, very elegantly appointed, for Winter was a bachelor and prided himself on his style; but the place was beset by collieries.
9 Bodily unrest and chill and weariness beset him, routing his thoughts.
10 They surrounded it in a cluster, and hurried along as though beset.
11 The approach to this Kurtz grubbing for ivory in the wretched bush was beset by as many dangers as though he had been an enchanted princess sleeping in a fabulous castle.
12 That is to say, without mincing words, he invariably set before his hearers the sorrows and the difficulties which may confront a man, the trials and the temptations which may beset him.
13 Pierre, on unexpectedly becoming Count Bezukhov and a rich man, felt himself after his recent loneliness and freedom from cares so beset and preoccupied that only in bed was he able to be by himself.
14 The bigwigs, the most respected members of the club, beset the new arrivals.
15 Others with drawn swords have beset the doorway below and keep it in crowded column.
Example Sentence:
1 Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
2 The country has been beset by economic woes for the past decade.
3 She wanted to enjoy her retirement without being beset by financial worries.
4 It is a neighborhood beset by all the usual inner-city problems.
5 Our troops was beset by enemy fire.
6 Many vexing problems beset the American public school system.
7 With fatalism, he accepted the hardships that beset him.
8 My groom and my page sleep out of the house, and may beset aside altogether.