Use the word harried in a sentence

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Manna was and is too well known, and I needed to rest without being harried for stories and tales

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Due to gathering storm clouds, or just bad luck, little foot traffic harried the street

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It seemed all heads and eyes were intent on a harried man in a dark, drab boiler suit sitting at a table, checking tags and glaring at a little computer screen on the table as he scrolled through a seemingly endless list

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As usual, the doctor looked harried

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Michelle and Gary were doing well, though Gary is probably even more harried than I am—and much more harried than Charles always seemed to be

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I went to the house indicated and found a rather harried middle-aged Choson who waved me away impatiently until I produced my gerege

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A harried looking woman chewing a wad of gum then

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A harried, nervous young man who can’t trust half of those around him, thrust into power too early by the magical assassination of his father King Wittan nine months ago; still unsolved

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Such people are hounded by creditors, frustrated and harried, and are prone to tell you what they could have done had they been able to take advantage of an opportunity

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Yes, he has suspected them of treason, harried and pursued them and murdered them too, but he has never confronted them like this

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By the stars, how fire and its cursing had harried him since he met the mind-executioner, and now it had risen again to haunt him

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For three days now the Aristrian Skirmishers had harried the rear guard, often riding through their thin lines and striking at the groups of refugees and stragglers beyond, knowing that this would slow the Tanarian retreat further

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I announced myself to the doorman and was taken to an office in which stood the Manager – nicotine stained, harried and twitching; and the Director – lean, chain-smoking and worried

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And many a thief died at the door of the tomb, and many another was harried by monstrous dreams to die at last with the froth of madness on his lips

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He desperately wished to find and succor Natala, who he was sure needed aid badly; but harried as he was by all the warriors in Xuthal, he could only run on, trusting to luck to elude them and find her

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Mounted warriors harried us, they were protected by both shields of metal and spells, their bolts of magic either froze our wings or stole the air from under us

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Many of my men were slain, and the rest of us harried through the hills like jackals

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It rang several times and then the familiar voice came on, sounding busy and harried

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The helmeted riders harried them, but did not press in too rashly

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They raided the shipping, and harried the Zingaran coast towns, just as the Zingaran buccaneers did, but these dignified their profession by calling themselves Freebooters, while they dubbed the Barachans pirates

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Across grassy courts, up shimmering stairs, over the slanting roofs of fantastic towers, even along the broad coping of the walls, the giants fled, dripping blood at each step, harried by their merciless pursuers as by wolves

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Last night the main body of the army camped by Valkia, while squadrons of knights harried the fleeing Aquilonians

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Could he be the target of the kidnapping and expected to pay a ransom for her release? Why not blackmail? It didn‘t make sense, yet the harried man knew the situation explosive and not to be swept under the rug of presumed innocence

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harried, made a brief appearance in the courtyard, but scurried

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The harried doctor needed to unwind and put his hands on the desk leaning towards the reclining questioner

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Her mind quickly dismissed the harried rancher‘s condition as she fought through her confusion about what had happened

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the horse and harried him from below with a wicked short blade

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harried, made a brief appearance in the courtyard, but scurried away before

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“You’re a brute,” Amaranta would tell him as she was harried by his hounds

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� When the harried intelligence officer called his counterpart at the first squadron, it was to learn that the man had been punched in the eye by an enraged pilot ant that the wing�s intelligence officer was just now having a screaming match on the telephone with the duty officer at the air division�s headquarter in Wissant

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man’s voice came over the phone and it sounded a bit harried

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He was however alarmed at once by the harried tone of the officer that answered and by the background noise of what sounded like near chaos in Wissant

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There seemed to be a preponderance of harried husbands

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sides an overburdened and harried householder is expected to act in a

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At the Table: On this Harried Purchmas

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Ten minutes later, Anne’s hair looked as flawless as it had before her harried packing,

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“Is there something I can help you with madam?” She looked around the foyer and towards the bustling lobby bar with the golden statues at its entrance assuming poses of serenity that contrasted harshly with the harried staff that passed between them

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Moreover, due to work demands of harried parents, the resulting guilt about time

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«Th’ divil’s harried off his soul,» he cried, «and he may hey his carcass into t’ bargain, for aught I care! Ech! what a wicked un he looks girning at death!» and the old sinner grinned in mockery

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The Blond Bob looked predictably harried

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The voice on the message sounded harried:

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When he came back to me, he sounded harried, which I’d never known him to be before

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editorials denouncing the speculators as vultures and bloodsucking leeches and calling but the efforts came to nothing, for the government was harried by many things

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The crowd halted uncertainly, grinning, and Big followed by the harried, shouting officer

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I had to track down a harried, mustached woman to unlock the case, and point out one I wanted while she waited impatiently

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The host of Orcs and Easterlings had turned back out of Anurien, but harried and scattered by the Rohirrim they had broken and fled with little fighting towards Cair Andros; and with that threat destroyed and new strength arriving out of the South the City was as well manned as might be

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He was hanging clothes to dry in the yard and I saw his eagerness in the harried way he finished the job

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He’d sit at the kitchen table with his flyswatter, watch the flies darting from wall to wall, buzzing here, buzzing there, harried and rushed

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‘Th’ divil’s harried off his soul,’ he cried, ‘and he may hev’ his carcass into t’ bargin, for aught I care! Ech! what a wicked ’un he looks, girning at death!’ and the old sinner grinned in mockery

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I had begun to wonder, weeks before, if his sight prowled me along, damning my guilty speed, or if only his ear caught the passing of a harried conscience

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But that was the very trouble! He had been through the mill already, he knew what it was to be a boy among lions; his own childhood had come rushing back to him in the last few hours, a time of terror and violence, and now he could not bear to think of Jim’s going through it all, those long years, especially if you were a delicate child, through no fault of your own, your bones thin, your face pale, what could you expect but to be harried and chased?

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Its state meant some harried attendants had shrewdly waylaid the girl and wrestled her into it as she was on the utter threshold of the Great Hall

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Sentence Examples

# Would provide for the harried man

It was a torture to see him being harried by his own kind because he couldn’t fly anymore.

But no mother-of-the-bride was ever as harried as you are

Captain, you appear rather harried.

Backrubs for harried executives.

It’s the perfect weekend for the harried, stressed-out executive.

He’s been pursued and harried… across miles of open country.

I should be overworked and harried.

They look a little harried.

They too were being harried by cats and stoats, so the survivors were caught and taken to three small cat-free islets.

«Quick Meals for the harried Housewife».

So harried as not to feel at home? — Nothing of the sort

So that in the midst of the searching of souls and the gnashing of teeth the delegates of this convention harried by the actions of a belligerent usurper and the radicals of his party have stumbled into secession.

Things got harried, and I lost him in the woods.

I’m harried, but lovable.

She was harried, disorganized. She couldn’t find her keys.

A man such as yourself, harried from place to place, jeered at, treated with suspicion and contempt, you could do with a friend.

Ah. «Shopping: Therapy for the harried Homemaker»… by Sarah Cain.

The North American Maroons escaped the colonial plantations and harried the British colonists for decades.

You may hand us over to the executioner, but in three months’ time, the disgusted and harried people will bring you to book and drag you alive through the dirt in the streets.

She looks harried even though no one’s here.

Just a little harried today, that’s all.

My mailbox run over by a harried soccer mom… And a dead starling on the doorstep, The result of poor navigation.

They chased and harried their prey, causing panic… and introducing mayhem in their ranks.

I am torn and harried by my many responsibilities.

There are no witches, only poor people like me, hunted and harried, tortured and murdered, and for no reason other than they are not you!

There’s these demon children and that you have this kind of harried mother.

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— Updated example sentences

(1) He was harried by constant bothering of his fans.

(2) She harried the authorities, writing letters and getting up petitions.

(3) We were harried into the police car.

(4) The enemy troops harried the village.

(5) She has been harried by the press all week.

(6) The soldiers harried the enemy out of the country.

(7) The Vikings harried the English coast.

(8) The town has harried off with nothing.

(9) All day, every day, they are harried by everyone they meet.

(10) He looks harried from having had to push his way through to reach me.

(11) She harried the detective constable who was checking Christine Mills’ alibis.

(12) No longer are they helpless pawns, harried and wounded by the disease, driven helplessly out of life.

(13) After an erratic and harried greeting(sentencedict.com), we waited quite a while for some one to initiate contact.

(14) Nicephorus’ fleet harried the accessible southern coasts in retribution, but made no firm gains.

(15) Given the harried pace of your work life, try to receive feedback at two times. 1.

(16) Harried executive Played by people who keep so busy with minute details that they always seem harassed.

(17) The captain harried the quarter master for recognition manuals.

(18) Fear of losing his job harried the clerk.

(19) The harried magazinist appeared as the tragic young aristocrat.

(20) The happy men cannot be harried. Sentencedict.com

(21) The pirates harried the towns along the coast.

(22) A gang of delinquents harried the storekeeper.

(23) Mr. Roper asked these same harried people.

(24) Cao Cao’s army harried his rear guard.

(25) Mrs. Underhill today appeared harried.

(26) We are a harried people, beset by oppressors.

(27) Sometimes a young otter trails the white-faced adult, and is harried by a hungry gull competing for scraps of abalone.

(28) Yet a devil was loose somewhere, a restless imp had slipped into her and would not be harried or prayed out.

(29) He seemed like a different person, much older, worn and harried.

(30) His eyes had been rubbed a raw red by fatigue and cold and had a harried glitter.