HARRY in a Sentence

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12 example sentences for HARRY, such as:

1. The army harried the enemy's border.
2. The tax authorities have been harrying her for repayment.
3. That St Withold's of Burton is an owlet's nest worth the harrying.
4. She harried the authorities, writing letters and getting up petitions.
5. Mostly to be left alone, not to be harried by people I don't like, driven to do things I don't want to do.

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 Meanings and Examples of HARRY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
harry
 v.  make a pillaging or destructive raid on (a place), as in wartimes
 v.  annoy continually or chronically
Classic Sentence:
1  Crowds formed at the depot, hoping for news from incoming trains, at the telegraph office, in front of the harried headquarters, before the locked doors of the newspapers.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
2  The government did its best, but the efforts came to nothing, for the government was harried by many things.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
3  The crowd halted uncertainly, grinning, and Big Sam, followed by three other large negroes, ran across the road to the carriage, closely followed by the harried, shouting officer.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
4  Now that she thought about it, they hadn't made her particularly happy, though they made her less harried, less fearful of the morrow.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIII
5  Mostly to be left alone, not to be harried by people I don't like, driven to do things I don't want to do.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIII
6  In addition to all their physical hardships, there was thus a constant strain upon their minds; they were harried all day and nearly all night by worry and fear.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
7  I am no antiquarian, but I could imagine that they were some unwarlike and harried race who were forced to accept that which none other would occupy.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8. First Report of Dr. Watson
8  Forgetful of the store and the mills, she spent her time on the lot, arguing with carpenters, bickering with masons, harrying the contractor.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIX
9  That St Withold's of Burton is an owlet's nest worth the harrying.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
Example Sentence:
1  The army harried the enemy's border.
2  She harried the authorities, writing letters and getting up petitions.
3  The tax authorities have been harrying her for repayment.