Examples of using "Cerco" in a sentence and their english translations:
and took Miletus by siege.
We are under siege.
The castle is under siege.
Third Corps escaped the encirclement.
The siege took only three hours.
Israel has intensified its siege on Gaza.
the sixth person to be mauled in what amounted to a ten hour siege...
Then Priam, though hemmed with death on every side, / spared not his utterance, nor his wrath controlled.
The croissant is not French but Austrian. It was created by a Viennese pastry cook to celebrate the lifting of the siege of Vienna by the Ottomans.
"And falteringly the traitor plays his part. / 'Oft, wearied by the war, the Danaans planned / to leave – and oh! had they but left – the land.'"
This Polydorus Priam from the war / to Thracia's King in secret had consigned / with store of gold, when, girt with siege, he saw / Troy's towers, and trust in Dardan arms resigned.