"siege" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Dave Bassett's team had to resist a late siege to ensure a place in the quarter-finals.
- Its inhabitants successfully resisted a siege by Ottoman forces in 1822.
- As if all this was not bad enough, by this time Gerona resisted a second siege.
- We will have difficulty resisting so long a siege!
- The town was badly damaged but the castle resisted a siege and was not captured.
- It resisted a siege of thirteen months and a terrible bombardment, until at last the garrison surrendered.
- Carcassonne was said to be named after resisting a five-year siege by Charlemagne.
- They did not, however, have the original purpose of being a structure able to resist a prolonged siege or bombardment.
- Left to themselves, the forts were planned to resist a siege for about a month, based on estimates made in 1888.
- However, it quickly became obsolete as a serious fortification genuinely capable of resisting a siege.
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