Eksempler på bruk av ordet siege i setninger på engelsk.
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Verdun had withstood a siege of ten weeks.
Verdun hadde motstått en beleiring i ti uker.
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There is no way out of the siege except to take the bull by the horns and let God judge the outcome.
Det finnes ingen utvei fra beleiringen unntatt å ta tyren ved hornene og la Gud dømme utfallet.
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A trebuchet is a siege weapon similar to a catapult.
En trebuchet er et beleiringsvåpen som ligner på en katapult.
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During the siege, zoo animals regularly ended up on restaurant menus.
Under beleiringen havnet dyrehage dyr regelmessig på restoranmenyer.
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The Turks held siege over the Castle of Eger for a long time.
Tyrkerne beleiret Eger-borgen i lange tider.
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Tom works in the building directly opposite where the siege is taking place, and could clearly see a gunman in the cafe together with a number of hostages.
Tom jobber i bygningen rett overfor der beleiringen pågår, og kunne tydelig se en skyte fra kafeen sammen med en rekke gisler.
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| The occupation of Iraq has become a guerrilla war, a siege that has lasted more than a thousand days. | |
| His explosive temper probably provoked the disastrous siege of Fallujah last spring, killing 600 Iraqis, most of them women and children, in revenge for the deaths of 4 civilian mercenaries, one of them a South African. | |