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Example sentences for "harassment"

Lexicographically close words:
haranguing; harass; harassed; harasses; harassing; harassments; harbinger; harbingers; harbor; harborage
  1. Tarlac was particularly interested in the small, one-man harassment craft it carried, and since Hovan had flown one of them in combat several times, his interest was just as intense and far more personal.

  2. Imperial experts believed the little harassment craft were computer-controlled, because of their precise maneuvering and persistent attacks.

  3. So he took to the tactics of harassment and ambuscade,--the policy of killing from behind, which our Apaches learned in the same way.

  4. Their harassment was so sleepless and so disastrous that to check it Hernando conceived the audacious plan of capturing Manco in his stronghold.

  5. Harassment by these pests is believed to be the leading cause of the haste with which the Caribou are frequently seen passing over the Barrens in summer.

  6. In August, however, scarcely any fat was to be found on the animals; perhaps the annual renewal of pelage and the summer harassment by flies had been deterrents to the storage of fat.

  7. After years of high-tech harassment and spiralling revenue losses, their complaints of rampant outlawry were being taken seriously by law enforcement.

  8. Perhaps the knowledge that further prompting would have no effect on my stance impeded harassment of any kind.

  9. Perhaps there exists an unspoken truce amongst children to avoid such harassment because each child knows that it could have happened to him.

  10. He was in no way recompensed for the money which he had had to expend to establish his innocence, or paid for the great anxiety and harassment of soul he suffered.

  11. The most disturbing aspect of Japanese air attacks soon became the nightly harassment by Japanese aircraft which singly, it seemed, roamed over the perimeter, dropping bombs and flares indiscriminately.

  12. Within reasonable limits, any partly-destroyed wild species can be increased and brought back by giving absolute protection from harassment and slaughter.

  13. Nettleship (1972), studying the effects of herring gulls on Atlantic puffins, showed that the effect of harassment and stealing food from the parents was to reduce the amount of food brought to the young and thus reproductive success.

  14. Then they were turned upon by the rearguard of an American division, marching on the north bank to suppress the harassment to which the flotilla otherwise was liable in its advance.

  15. In both articles the jump between Boston and New York suggests forcibly the harassment of the coasting trade.

  16. They knew well enough the harassment of maintaining a land warfare three thousand miles from Great Britain, as well as the dangers threatening the European situation and embarrassing the British ministry.

  17. The harassment was necessarily extreme, and the sustained suspense wearing; for, with reports continually arriving, now from one shore and now from the other, each neighborhood thought itself the next to be attacked.

  18. We can rationalize using the Log Depot if we experience piracy and harassment of our transports and citizens.

  19. Belmont University had always looked upon faculty misdeeds such as child molestation, sexual harassment or record falsification with a tolerant if not blind eye.

  20. Two women successfully brought charges of sexual harassment against a Belmont administrator.

  21. Administrative personnel talked to the woman and were able to subtly or directly lead her to understand that problems would arise in her matriculation if she persisted with charges of sexual harassment or rape.

  22. Time proved, however, that sex discrimination and sexual harassment laws were never well enforced and were being slowly destroyed by the Supreme Court.

  23. One commander reported that racial harassment drove the solitary black in the prewar (p.

  24. Cockshaw escaped gleefully to the racquet-court, and Fotheringham sat sadly at the Board-room, conscious of present harassment and impending disaster.

  25. And the fascinating jade never hinted that devotion to her brought more drudgery and harassment and pain than any other service in the world.

  26. Although the diversions of 1758 had not very materially aided Frederic of Prussia, they had inflicted distinct humiliation and harassment upon France.

  27. Not only so, but in its course the republic, discouraged by frequent failure, had decided to abandon the control of the sea to its enemy, to keep its great fleets in port, and to confine its efforts to the harassment of British commerce.

  28. Herded together into cattle cars, without adequate space, ventilation, or sanitary conditions, they had to endure the horrible crowding and the harassment of the guards.

  29. The police were extremely angry at this harassment and looked for ways to retaliate.

  30. At the same time, Negro soldiers in the South were angry over the harassment and segregation with which they were confronted.

  31. Although acquitted, the harassment deepened his cynicism and hostility.

  32. Unaccustomed to the intensity of racial hostility and harassment which they found in America, they reacted with anger.

  33. However, after the eleventh century, the Ghanaian empire was continually exposed to harassment from a long series of Arabic holy wars.

  34. At the same time, those who were responsible for much of this harassment and terror believed that violence was necessary precisely in order to protect democracy.

  35. Only for this harassment of the Dot sheep, the roundup wagons would be loaded and ready to rattle abroad over the land.

  36. More Sheep The next week was a time of harassment for the Flying U; a week filled to overflowing with petty irritations, traceable, directly or indirectly, to their new neighbors, the Dot sheepmen.

  37. The approach of Christmas brings harassment and dread to many excellent people.


  38. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "harassment" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    aggravation; annoyance; bore; bother; devilment; difficulty; dogging; drag; exasperation; fretting; harassment; headache; nuisance; oppression; persecution; pest; problem; provocation; provoking; torment; trial; trouble; vexation; vexing; worry; worrying