How to Use beset in a Sentence
beset
verb
- A lack of money is the greatest problem besetting the city today.
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Even the walk from the front door to the gutter is beset with peril.
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Karen Russell,
The New Yorker,
4 June 2017
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Climate change, Covid and the threat of war may beset Gen Zers.
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New York Times,
28 Apr. 2022
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The program had been beset with problems from the start.
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Richard A. Webster,
ProPublica,
11 Apr. 2023
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On the day that Charlie was buried, the church and the graveyard were beset by reporters.
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Rebecca Mead,
The New Yorker,
6 Feb. 2023
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The launch of the 320-foot New Glenn rocket had been beset by delays.
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Hannah Parry,
Newsweek,
16 Jan. 2025
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Polling has been beset by a host of challenges during the past few years.
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Maria Eloisa Capurro,
Bloomberg.com,
18 Nov. 2020
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Yet the project has been beset with delays and mounting costs.
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Corinne Purtill,
Los Angeles Times,
6 Mar. 2024
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In the sequence where Belle runs away from the Beast's castle and is beset by wolves, the Beast rescues her.
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Maureen Lee Lenker,
EW.com,
14 Dec. 2022
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Over the years it has been beset by leaks, mold and issues with its facade.
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orlandosentinel.com,
10 July 2021
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Kela has been beset with biceps tendonitis off and on for the past five weeks.
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Stefan Stevenson,
star-telegram.com,
1 July 2017
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Thinking back to the origins of the pandemic in March, we were beset by fear.
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Mona Charen,
Star Tribune,
20 Oct. 2020
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In the past year, EA has been beset by scandal, including the fall of Bankman-Fried, one of its largest donors.
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Nitasha Tiku,
Anchorage Daily News,
7 July 2023
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To be sure, the work has been long and tedious, beset by setbacks at every turn.
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John Gallagher,
Freep.com,
19 Dec. 2019
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The museum has been beset by delays, partly due to the drop in oil prices.
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Bloomberg.com,
7 Sep. 2017
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Credit Suisse has been beset by a litany of scandals over the past few years.
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Siladitya Ray,
Forbes,
16 Mar. 2023
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The fund was also beset by massive amounts of fraud that cost the state billions of dollars.
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Adam Beam,
Fortune,
2 Oct. 2023
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The scandals that have beset the empire on both sides of the Atlantic have cost well over $2 billion so far.
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David Folkenflik,
NPR,
16 Sep. 2024
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Many hundreds of fires burned just on that one night, in this borough which had been beset by fires for the past nine years.
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Ian Frazier,
The New Yorker,
15 July 2024
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The bank was tightly linked to the tech industry, which is beset by layoffs.
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Ellen Francis,
BostonGlobe.com,
17 Mar. 2023
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From the start, the reform process was beset by dissent and infighting.
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Los Angeles Times,
5 Aug. 2021
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The overland route to the southern peninsula is beset by gangs.
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Chris Kenning,
The Courier-Journal,
20 Aug. 2021
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Darnold has had to break in a new receiving group that has been beset by injuries.
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Zach Helfand,
latimes.com,
9 Oct. 2017
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But the app was beset by fraud, an ubiquitous threat in the crypto universe.
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Aaron Pressman,
BostonGlobe.com,
17 Dec. 2022
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The Dolphins have been beset by their softness on defense on third down.
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Steve Svekis,
sun-sentinel.com,
3 Oct. 2021
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Yet at the same time, the world was beset with another surge of Covid-19 across multiple regions of the globe.
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Tlalit Bussi Tel Tzure,
Forbes,
21 Dec. 2021
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The Seahawks running backs have been beset by injuries for the past two seasons.
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Geoffrey C. Arnold,
OregonLive.com,
13 Mar. 2018
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For the first two years after the purchase, the project was beset with production delays.
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Trevor Fraser,
orlandosentinel.com,
25 Mar. 2021
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But building cheaply in a world beset by disasters means building things to fail.
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Alice Hill,
Foreign Affairs,
14 Feb. 2025
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Hegseth's candidacy has been beset with scandal since Trump announced his selection.
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Stef W. Kight,
Axios,
23 Jan. 2025
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