"siege" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- After this long and bitter siege the city had to surrender because of a lack of food and supplies.
- But I will stick my neck out and suggest that the legend is correct in asserting that Troy was deliberately demolished after a bitter siege.
- Marwan took Emesa (Homs) after a bitter ten-month siege.
- Athens, nevertheless, remained loyal to Mithridates, despite a bitter siege throughout the winter of 87/6.
- After a bitter siege lasting months, the cathedral lay in ruins.
- Our forebrethren endured a long and bitter siege then, though there had been a lot more of them to suffer.
- The Muslim section of Mostar has been under a bitter siege for months.
- In 1215, after a bitter siege in which many of the city's inhabitants starved, Zhongdu's 100,000 defenders and 108,000 households surrendered.
- After a bitter siege fell the fortress Batkun on the northern slopes of the Rhodopes.
- He then fought at the bitter and lengthy siege of Raglan Castle on the side of Parliament, the winning side.
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