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beset - use in sentences
Modifying Another Word
- easily: A certain sin that so easily besets us and breaks fellowship.
Preposition: with
- difficulty: The building of the church was beset with difficulties.
- delay: This is a big undertaking and no doubt will be beset with delays and frustrations.
- problem: He was soon beset with problems, not the least of which was the water supply.
Subject
- uncertainty: However, the impact upon the earth's climate is beset by uncertainty.
- problem: Behind the scenes the series was beset by problems.
- difficulty: The defense would be beset by serious practical difficulties.
- injury: Unfortunately the team was beset by injuries in the Spring Term.
- delay: The fixed sign emphasis is a classic indication of slow journeys, beset by delays.
Modifying Another Word
- continually: We must bear one another's burdens, resisting the selfish temptations that continually beset us.
- currently: I am not seeking to spin my way out of the difficulties that currently beset the Conservative Party.
- again: The wrapper was the largest individual contributor to waste and again beset by numerous small problems.
- still: In other words I am still beset by the hard problem.
- often: However, the organizational difficulties that often beset engineering projects may be a barrier to the idea of open source.
Preposition: by
- uncertainty: However, the impact upon the earth's climate is beset by uncertainty.
- difficulty: The defense would be beset by serious practical difficulties.
- problem: Behind the scenes the series was beset by problems.
- injury: Unfortunately the team was beset by injuries in the Spring Term.
- delay: The fixed sign emphasis is a classic indication of slow journeys, beset by delays.
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