harrying in English

verb
1
persistently carry out attacks on (an enemy or an enemy's territory).
The king's adoption of Danish tactics in the winter of 878, such as his use of strongholds and small mobile raiding parties to harry the lands of his enemies, was forced upon him by immediate circumstances.

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Below are sample sentences containing the word "harrying" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "harrying", or refer to the context using the word "harrying" in the English Dictionary.

1. Synonyms for Bedevilment include vexation, pestering, aggravation, annoyance, harassment, harrying, importunity, bugging, botheration and teasing

2. Synonyms for Bothering include aggravation, annoyance, bedevilment, botheration, bugging, disturbance, harassment, harrying, importunity and pestering

3. Synonyms for Bugging include pestering, vexation, aggravation, bedevilment, annoyance, harassment, harrying, importunity, botheration and teasing

4. 25 He relentlessly shadowed Michael from the start, harrying the Ferrari at every turn.

5. Back then, Washington was constantly harrying Beijing to let the yuan rise in value and to deregulate its markets.

6. He acted as the intellectual cavalry, seeking out new fields, harrying the enemy with his pen and probing unknown territory.

7. Attrition noun wearing down, harrying, weakening, harassment, thinning out, attenuation, debilitation a war of Attrition against the government Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition

8. This is the biggest and Burliest of the three jaeger species, which are fast, agile relatives of gulls known for harrying and stealing from other seabirds

9. Passage"); Mycenae is "rich in gold" (H 179); Achaian Argos is "the richest of lands" (I 141); in sandy Pylos are "men abound-ing in flocks and kine" (I 154); in that dear home-land of Achilles "goodly flocks are to be had for the harrying" and "chestnut horses," too (I …