(v. t.) To strip; to lay waste; as, the Northmen came several times and harried the land.
(v. t.) To agitate; to worry; to harrow; to harass.
(v. i.) To make a predatory incursion; to plunder or lay waste.
Example Sentences:
(1) Squadron Leader Kevin Harris, commander of the Merlins at Camp Bastion, the main British base in Helmand, praised the crews, adding: "The Merlins will undergo an extensive programme of maintenance and cleaning before being packed up, ensuring they return to the UK in good order."
(2) Each is a failure by the state to protect the young people concerned, made all the greater because the same criticisms have occurred time and time again.” Harris said his review found that understaffing was a contributory issue.
(3) Harry was 12 years old when Diana, Princess of Wales, was killed in a car crash but said it was not until his late 20s, after two years of “total chaos”, that he processed the grief.
(4) While ITV1's Harry Hill and the final series of BBC1's Gavin and Stacey will stay put, Sky1 did manage to secure US drama House, starring Hugh Laurie, from Channel Five, paying an estimated £500,000 an episode.
(5) People will see an increased police presence in the city centre," said Harris.
(6) • Democratic senators were angry at what they saw as a House attempt to "torpedo" – Harry Reid's word – what they saw as a perfectly viable, bipartisan Senate agreement.
(7) We believe there are probably additional cases.” Police did not conduct DNA testing at the time on what little physical evidence there was in the cases against Griggs, Johnson and Harris.
(8) The Republican House speaker John Boehner and the Democratic Senate leader Harry Reid both expressed a desire on Wednesday to work together.
(9) It’s immoral.” On Twitter, Harris has occasionally mentioned his background when debating these matters.
(10) Harris is officially there to talk up the last eight episodes of How I Met Your Mother, on host network CBS.
(11) And so, through Trove’s archived newspapers, I’ve found Harry – the mission boy who saw the Japanese at Caledon Bay imprison women, girls and old men in the trepang smokehouse, before raping the women in the bush.
(12) He'd thought: I can't ring, 'cos Harry's probably crying, and I can't quite deal with him crying on the phone."
(13) Harry Kane laughs off one-season wonder tag after Alan Shearer pep talk Read more “He is a great role model.
(14) Operative treatment often will be required in Salter-Harris type III and IV fractures, juvenile Tillaux, and triplane fractures.
(15) Could the film’s producer be the same Harry Saltzman who came to the bureau in 1951 as a newspaper photographer to take a picture of a laboratory?
(16) Prince Harry and the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have enlisted a rapper, a Royal Marine and a Labour spin doctor to try to push stigma about discussing mental health beyond what they believe is a “tipping point” and into public acceptability.
(17) Corbyn’s ‘new politics’ is neither hateful nor pure: it’s complicated | John Harris Read more Their dilemma is plain: if they make a stand against what is happening, they stand accused of disloyalty by Corbyn’s supporters; but if they go along with it, they are complicit in Labour’s probable disintegration when voters realise the party has been taken over by people they can never vote for.
(18) Fifty-nine Salter-Harris III and IV lesions of the medial malleolus, Tillaux fractures, and triplane fractures were examined after 9 (3-32) years to assess the frequency of late symptoms, deformity, joint incongruity, and secondary arthrosis.
(19) Harry Reid and Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority and minority leaders, held two lengthy meetings on Monday in an attempt to nail down terms of a possible compromise.
(20) One thing he never does is offer to let people stroke the harris hawk.
Pester
Definition:
(v. t.) To trouble; to disturb; to annoy; to harass with petty vexations.
(v. t.) To crowd together in an annoying way; to overcrowd; to infest.
Example Sentences:
(1) The creation of Albion’s second goal was more artful, even if it started with Özil being pestered into surrendering possession near halfway.
(2) It was Tim, an archivist from Warners whom I had been pestering for years about trying to track down some long-lost film footage.
(3) They should not pressure children or pester parents to buy products, and promotional offers should be used with a "due sense of responsibility".
(4) The allegations are sure to concern many parents whose children are pestering them to buy the extensive range of Cars 2 toys launched to coincide with the movie, which hit UK cinema screens in July.
(5) Professional irritant Kenny Miller wins a corner down the right, with some incessant pestering.
(6) For a year I have been pestered with: "X has got Facebook.
(7) He kept pestering her, phoning and phoning and phoning her."
(8) But while the Christians are still pestering God, the end-of-daysers awaiting Armageddon, and the Aryan brothers proving the least convincing imaginable argument for the superiority of their race, things have changed quite drastically in porn, which has been even more vulnerable than cinema, TV or music to the predations of the internet.
(9) Kala-azar (KA), an enigmatic disease has resurged in India since 1970's after about a lull of 20 years, displaying its pestering nature.
(10) The band became pally with him and pestered for a support slot when his Black Pus project (another great name) came to town.
(11) After a bit of good-natured pestering, she agrees to sell all of us one drink so we can discuss the heady topic of race in America while slightly intoxicated.
(12) Artists don't stand next to their artwork in galleries pestering the public to part with their pound coins.
(13) For now he is determined to stick with his work in the building industry, despite his workmates pestering him for the odd Victoria sponge or carrot cake.
(14) Nine hours working as an exterminator takes a physical toll on the 45-year-old , who didn’t go to college, makes $33,000 a year, and relies on a steady swarm of pests to pester people in his 90% rural county.
(15) The new boss, Paul Pester, whose £1.6m outstanding bonuses from Lloyds are to be transferred to TSB, is also aiming for growth in current accounts, where it has only 4.2% market share despite having some 6% of high street branches.
(16) There are some innovative ideas about, he says, on ways of teaching children in school to wash their hands – in the hope that they will then go home and pester their parents to do the same.
(17) Joleon Lescott, who endured a torrid debut for Villa, and Micah Richards were pestered into errors in the opening minutes and the latter was especially relieved that Danny Drinkwater’s shot from 25 yards flew over the bar.
(18) Paul Pester, chief executive of TSB, said the branches that were closing were within 500 metres of another TSB branch and were part of the estate it inherited when it was carved out of Lloyds Banking Group last year.
(19) Pester said the bank had achieved its target of winning more than 6% of all new current accounts and those being switched between banks.
(20) Pester added that, of the 631 branches TSB started with, there were 15 locations where two or three branches were “within spitting distance of each other”.