Sentences with 'beleaguered'
Example sentences and phrases with the word beleaguered and other words derived from it.
• « Vietnamese independence leaders, most notably former Parisian university student (and former dishwasher - he worked in Paris restaurants while a student) Ho Chi Minh, led the North Vietnamese communist forces (the Viet Minh) in a fierce guerrilla war against the beleaguered French. »
• « These Southerners saw themselves as a beleaguered minority and claimed the right of states to nullify federal laws that seemed to threaten state sovereignty. »
• « Calhoun became a leading political theorist defending slavery and the rights of the South, which he saw as containing an increasingly beleaguered minority. »