Used in a Sentence

siege

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for siege.

Editorial note

School systems are under siege from parents and bureaucrats and the teachers are caught in the middle.

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Definitions4
Parts of speech1

Quick take

Military action.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of siege gathered in one view.

noun

Military action.

noun

A seat.

noun

The seat of a heron while looking out for prey.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for siege.

Example sentences

1

School systems are under siege from parents and bureaucrats and the teachers are caught in the middle.

2

I've been a fan of siege, but recently I had to test an app under very high load and I had big trouble getting siege to do that.

3

Bigger fish like Apple and Google would be able to siege them and starve them out as pricing races to the bottom.

4

I'd describe it more as a siege mentality than warrior.

5

My point was that the siege of Leningrad took a year and a half.

6

Eventually discovered Catskills and Siege Perilous when it was color wars.

7

I hear those siege engineers during the Napoleonic Wars didn't have any certified licenses either.

8

Then they turned Siege Perilous into a regular test server.

9

So we set up our service to point to a flaky MJ and the use siege to see how it handles it.

10

I used Siege a few years ago for some benchmarking and was not impressed.

11

It's a pity because I really like the interface, but Siege is technically lacking.

12

Maybe two castles firing siege weapons at each other?

Quote examples

1

The term started off as "art of building of siege engines".

2

Who/Where are these politically incorrect people who are having their careers systematically "ruined" to the scale that one would think that "tech" itself is under siege?

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use siege in a sentence?

School systems are under siege from parents and bureaucrats and the teachers are caught in the middle.

What does siege mean?

Military action.

What part of speech is siege?

siege is commonly used as noun.